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Health Minister Mark Butler agrees it is taking too long for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee to assess drugs. The Coalition says he’s taken too long to act.

The valid point about Australian medicines that pharma giants made to Trump

Australia’s peak medicines industry group says it takes 466 days for approved medicines to become subsidised. Health Minister Mark Butler agrees that it’s too long.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme would not be negotated.

Australians’ medicines are about to become cheaper. Why would Trump target them?

Australians pay some of the lowest medicine prices in the world for a reason: our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Here’s how it works and why it’s being threatened.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Patients will be able to receive 60-day scripts from September, with the same maximum co-payment of $30.

Dutton under pressure to match PM’s pledge to drop medicine prices by $6.60

Labor will bring the patient co-payment for subsidised medicines down to $25 from $31.60 as it wages an election battle over healthcare.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
The state government has pledged $42.3 million for IVF treatment.

Cheaper IVF and endometriosis treatments on PBS pledged by Labor

Thousands of Australian women will soon save hundreds – and in some cases, thousands – of dollars a year for fertility, contraception and endometriosis treatments under an ALP pledge.

  • Millie Muroi
Sydney woman Luan Lawrenson-Woods paid $30,000 in out-of-pocket fees for surgeries and treatment related to breast cancer despite having private health insurance.

One in five patients skip treatment due to out-of-pocket costs

The survey also found 40 per cent of private hospital patients were being slugged with out-of-pocket specialist fees of more than $1000 – and many weren’t informed of all costs in advance.

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Anthony Albanese at Labor’s ‘Strengthening Medicare’ announcement in Launceston.

Labor vows $644m for additional 50 urgent care clinics if re-elected

The pitch is designed to sharpen the ALP’s contrast with Peter Dutton and takes Labor’s Medicare pledges over recent weeks to nearly $10 billion.

  • Paul Sakkal
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Health Minister Mark Butler and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will unveil Labor’s major plans for health reform on Sunday.

All Australians to get bulk-billing boost under Labor’s $8.5b plans for health reform

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will make it cheaper to see a doctor by paying GPs more if they bulk-bill all adult patients in a major election pitch to middle Australia.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Bulk billing

GPs believe this one change to bulk-billing could save Australians $42 a visit

Analysis suggests that extending bulk-billing incentives to under-35s would save young people $42 a visit in average doctor’s fees, while preventing 9000 hospitalisations.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
The raft of health investments will give direct financial relief to at least half a million Australian women.

HRT, contraceptive pills to cost less in major women’s health pledge

It will also be cheaper for women to get long-acting contraceptives and menopause assessments, in a significant package that Labor says will save women thousands of dollars.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announce the measures on Wednesday.

PM throws states a $1.7 billion lifeline to save hospitals

The Albanese government seeks to prove its commitment to Medicare before the upcoming election – while holding out on a fresh five-year deal with the states.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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