Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Oct 2019
Most of the medicine subsidies the Government claims are not new and cost them nothing
25 October 2019 - Health Minister Greg Hunt has made political capital out of subsidising new medicines on the PBS but of the 2,200 drugs he claims to have supported only 227 are new.
The Morrison Government’s claims it has listed over 2,200 new medicines on the nation’s medicine subsidy scheme have been debunked by the Department of Health.
In fact just 227 new medicines, have been listed since the Coalition came to power in 2013 Senate Estimates has been told.
Unlike his predecessors, Health Minister Greg Hunt has milked PBS listings for positive publicity and has repeatedly credited his government’s economic management as the reason it has been able to subsidise 2,200 new medicines on the PBS.
