Australia’s peak medicines body has called on the Federal Government to clarify the extent of Budget cuts likely to affect essential and life-saving pharmaceuticals.

Medicines Australia remains concerned that billions of dollars will be stripped from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in a move that will undermine patient access to breakthrough medicines.

The organisation representing the companies that make medicines warned that potential Budget cuts could lead to a two-tier system in which only the more wealthy can afford the latest medicines.

“All Australians deserve access to the world’s best medicines and we must avoid policy measures that will damage the PBS,” Medicines Australia CEO Tim James said.

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