Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2024
Why 10,000 Aussies a year being forced to fund their own cancer treatment
21 July 2024 - Australia’s medicine subsidy scheme is so crippled that a staggering 10,000 patients a year are being forced to fund their own lifesaving cancer treatment. Others can’t afford it.
Every year, each of our 930 cancer specialists is on average prescribing unfunded high cost therapies to 11 patients a year.
