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The costly 46 medicines Aussies can’t get cheaper – Chinchilla News
Australians are paying thousands of dollars for breakthrough medicines – and some are missing out altogether – because of subsidy delays. See list.
Exclusive: Almost 50 high-cost medicines have been approved for government subsidy but never made it onto the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, a News Corp Australia investigation has found.
And the problem is set to get worse under new reference pricing rules introduced in the US which mean pharmaceutical companies will have no incentive to give cheap drugs to Australians.
The 46 medicines include those used for treating people suffering from cancer, migraine, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and…
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