Under the Medicines Australia agreement, PBAC considered an immediate change to the discount rate with implementation planned through updated guidelines from July 2022. That change never arrived. The committee opposed any reduction. Surely that prejudices any role for the committee in the new review. Yes, a new review.
Every new working group and every consultation squeezes more life out of reform, like a lemon wrung to its rind
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