TY  - Report

AU  - Stephen Duckett



PY  - 2013
T1  - Australia’s bad drug deal: high pharmaceutical prices
PB  - Grattan Institute


DO  - https://doi.org/APO-33242
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/33242

AB  - Australians are paying too much for prescription drugs. The cost of this overpayment is at least $1.3 billion a year, or $3.5 million a day. This equates to 14 per cent of the entire Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) budget. In a time of escalating health costs and other strains on the Commonwealth Budget, spending on pharmaceuticals could be reduced relatively easily, if there is the political will to do so.
ER  -