16 October 2019 - Patient Voice Aotearoa welcomes the comments made by the Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters on ‘The Project’ on Friday last week. 

Peters stated “Right now…we know we are not spending nearly enough on pharmaceuticals and first world drugs…the reality is that PHARMAC’s budget is not big enough and we have to face that as a country and make some accommodations to give people the treatment and first world drugs that they deserve. 

We have a $7.5 billion surplus, so let’s take a look at PHARMAC’s funding to ensure that people like that get the treatment they need, at the time that they need it.”

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