Daniel ReedersTrent Twomey's response to the government permitting 60-day scripts is just >>CRINGE<< https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/pharmacy-lobby-president-weeps-over-prospect-of-60-day-scripts-20230426-p5d3e9.html #auspol
Ferdi MagellanLet them weep. Who is more important, people with chronic conditions who struggle to afford health care or Pharmacists who are making record profits? The money is going straight back into pharmacies where they are needed.
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners president Nicole Higgins: "At a time when the Pharmacy Guild has recorded the biggest profits in pharmacy, this is fear-mongering.”
The government estimates it will save Australians more than $1.6 billion over the next four years.
“Mr Butler said the change would save $1.2 billion in dispensing fees over the next four years, which would be "entirely" reinvested into community pharmacies.”
The LNP is so lazy and so beholden to the Pharmacy Guild it ignored the 2018 recommendation from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee to do this. They’d rather let the poor die than give up the political donations.
Five years later and people are a lot poorer. The drugs affected are all for serious chronic conditions that people can’t live without.
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