A new deal protects Australians chemists at the expense of patients

Daily Telegraph

22 September 2019 - Australia’s 3000 pharmacy owners have a government guaranteed monopoly that is pushing up medicine prices and the health minister has promised to keep it.

The nation’s chemists will have their incomes guaranteed by the taxpayer even if the number of prescriptions they dispense falls.

And their monopoly on selling prescription drugs will be preserved even though it pushes up medicine prices.

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