ClareBear 💚 
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/596016/no-logic-to-pharmac-s-proposal-to-change-access-to-type-2-diabetes-diabetes-drug-doctor Pharmac please heed the doctors not the twerkers. #nzpol #pharmac #diabetes #meddlingministers
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/595851/pharmac-proposes-removing-priority-access-of-type-2-diabetes-meds-for-maori-pacific "I think there'll be a lot of joint submissions against the proposal to remove the ethnicity criterion... it's non-Māori and non-Pacific who are actually aghast at this. The scientific community does not believe this is a warranted decision." #nzpol #pharmac #diabetes #healthinequities
Bob LeFridge Trump's stupid war has sparked medicine shortages in NZ. Pharmac's "Medicine supply notices" page shows all of the currently affected meds with details.
https://www.pharmac.govt.nz/medicine-funding-and-supply/medicine-notices
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/576759/no-issues-found-with-popular-hormone-replacement-patches-ministry-of-health I’m assuming pullya benefit is way past menopausal issues and now concentrating on efficacy of viagara. #nzpol #estradot #pharmac
file this
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
Strypey"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 - American Economic Liberties Project
"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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