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Pharmac wants to know what people think about this proposal. Feedback can be provided through Pharmac’s website until Thursday 30 October.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE2510/S00046/dental-treatment-proposed-for-public-funding.htm
act's grubby little hands all over this
"Raise $400k or die: The cost of surviving cancer"
#MarinéLourens, The Press, 2025/04/23
I'm fed up to the back teeth with news media picking on Pharmac. It's the best the public system can do, while governments allow corporations to patent bits of chemistry. Allowing them to charge economic rents on brand-name drugs. Which competitive markets could offer at a fraction of the price, while still covering their costs and making a profit;
https://www.economicliberties.us/our-work/the-costs-of-pharma-cheating/
Never even mentioned.
"The Costs of Pharma Cheating" examines one central driver of rising prescription drug prices: the illegal and anticompetitive tactics used by the pharmaceutical industry to perpetuate monopolies—in the form of government-backed patents over brand drugs—and block competition from more affordable generic drugs.
Great news for ADHDers in Aotearoa;
"Pharmac is now funding a new medicine and has removed renewal criteria for ADHD treatments."
Until recently, people taking ADHD medication have had to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars every 2 years for a medication review. Pharmac is now trusting GPs to do this for their patients, saving hundreds of hours of psychiatrists' time every year.
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Second, they are immensely proud of advocating for change and do so in the hope that one day Pharmac will become patient-focused, and others won’t have to suffer the same cruel fate and beg for their lives, or the lives of those they love.
Malcolm Mulholland from the group 'Patent Voice Aotearoa' is presenting a submission to Parliament today to increase Phrmac's funding.
#Pharmac, #Health, #DrugFunding, #myeloma, #BloodCancer
Amazing how a drug's users can realise a problem with an alternative and organise against it before #Pharmac develops an awareness of the scale of the problem. Whoever is doing their consulting needs a large amount of delta v applied to their underside.
The HRT petition cleared 10,000 signatures today. Keep 'em coming.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535098/seymour-issues-please-explain-over-oestrogen-patch-switch
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