Government to introduce legislation to cut medicine costs

Legislation to cut the price of medicine will be introduced to parliament today.

The change would reduce the co-payment by one-third, from $42.50 to $30 and will apply to 17 million full-priced medicines used by more than 3 million Australians a year.

[stephanmaric]

Won't be long before people wake up to this hypocrisy and nonsense!!!

[johnsbackwithcommonsense]

What about rate's cost of living etc?

[vivrowe]

The interest rates are not that high, it's the huge mortgage people took out because they have to have it all. Everything is on credit, cars financed, etc.

[dalehutchence]

How about helping to make the price of healthy food cheaper so we don't need all this medication

[MrGetwellsoon]

PM says, "It will help with the cost of living prices." How? By living in a medicine box the pills came in lol!

[sharonsmith]

Rather he cut the cost of electricity prices like he promised.

[somethingsavedmylife.]

Because now most are jabbed they will all be on medication for life

[johnwoodrow]

The best way to reduce the cost of medications is to make the necessary changes to your lifestyle so that no medications are required. EVERYONE I know who routinely takes medications does so due to preventable lifestyle diseases, most of them reversible with lifestyle changes e.g. hypertension, type 2 diabetes, etc.
Don't EVER expect a mainstream 'health professional' to recommend going off drugs, or the methods that make this possible.

[bookertee]

Daniel Andrews wants to stop medicine 💊 completely just like the ambulance service.

[easyz]

Interesting. Whilst reducing the cost of medicines is a good thing, those of us not on income supports (ie pensions) will take longer to reach the Safety Net limit before our meds come down to $5.95 a prescription. What Labor gives you with one hand, they take with another.

[chairmandan]

Someone will pay, hey guess who?, that's right, us. Can't wait, I've been waiting for the cost of my diacetylmorphine to come down.

[johnwoodrow]

What a sad reflection on the health of Australians. That a significant enough number run on medication of a dollar value that this additional taxpayer funded subsidy is perceived to make a material cost of living change to the population.
It's no more than healthy Australians paying more to subsidise the medication of unhealthy Australians.
P.S. Anyone with a Health Card e.g. Pensioners, already pays next to nothing for medications.

[frankwren]

This will just make them unaffordable unless the govt recognises it, moving the hardship to a different group of people.

[stenkarasin]

Great move, now do something about the price rises in food.

[AshleyJOsborne]

In other news, taxes are set to continue to rise.

[subramaniamchandrasekar]

Still high. The main ingredient - Chalk powder is very very cheap. Cost of production vs retail price will still be many hundreds of times.

[cyclonutterd]

That's great, now work on food and power prices - these stresses on the economy might be more pertinent at present.

[mikeskiman]

But when T UMP tried or as to do this ..DEMOCRAT / GOV ..were upset .NOW they cashed in all there stock .they say go ahead !!
Regulate !! right nancy

[nobody]

Socialism getting stronger by the day. I’m sure though Albo’s reasoning though will be “we’ve never done socialism properly yet.”

[OGNIAN]

Cant WAIT for the cheap meds now ! Have to spread that grafene somehow ..