Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Aug 2019
How a powerful lobby group is pushing up PBS medicine prices
30 August 2019 - Aussies are being forced to pay up to six times more for vital medicines despite being listed on the PBS. This is how their cost is increased.
Australia’s drug subsidy scheme is actually inflating the price of many common medicines an astounding News Corp investigation has found.
The hefty dispensing, administration and handling fees paid to chemists to stick a label on drugs are in some cases five to six times the cost of the medicines they are dispensing.
