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The price of PBS medicines is coming down. But are we helping the right people?

  • Written by: Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
The price of PBS medicines is coming down. But are we helping the right people?Polina Tankilevitch/Pexels, CC BY-SA

Some Australians will be paying less for prescription medicines from January, in a move announced this week and designed to ease cost-of-living pressures.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the maximum price of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medicines would drop from A$42.50 to $30, at a cost to...

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