Helping with health costs: prescription charge scrapped, providing cheaper medicine

New Zealand Government

18 May 2023 - The Chris Hipkins Government is reducing the cost of health care for New Zealand households by removing the $5 co-payment for prescription medicines from July this year.

“An estimated three million people will no longer have to worry about the cost of collecting their medication,” Ayesha Verrall said.

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