A health department spokesperson says the PBAC has not decided to cap the number of cost-effectiveness analysis submissions at 32. Yet it has decided that it can only meet its legal obligations under the Act with a cap of 32 in March. Clearly, there is a cap. The question is the basis on which it is applied.
This circular and semantic argument ends with one conclusion - a submission cap
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