Governments have decided they will pay any price in the fight against COVID-19 while the pharmaceutical sector is already grappling with supply. Nobody should expect the PBS in 2021, 2022 or beyond to look like it does in 2020 - and that is before you even consider the long-term budgetary impact of the shock about to hit the economy.
This is just the start of a challenge that will almost certainly leave a permanent 'scar'
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