(October 17, 2011 at 6:28 am)Jaysyn Wrote:(October 17, 2011 at 4:13 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Bizarrely the drug retails for AUD$300 and is available at AUD$30 on the PBS system here in Oz. So the govt foots the bill to the tune of AUD$270 per script per month for a 12-18 month coursevery strange fiscal behaviour.imho
Cheaper than the chemotherapy that your government also pays for, I'm sure.
Thing is that those who will never NEED chemo therapy are the ones who are using this PBS bounty.
It always seems to be the way here... those that don't NEED are the ones who use and those who do NEED go without.
Suffice to say that this drug and it's use is heavily subsidised by our federal govt so that it will "Appear good" to the major supporters of a minority govt. It's ALL political and has zero to do with health; Mental or otherwise.
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