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COVID not only health issue on Budget radar

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... government has allocated $2.4 billion over five years towards reducing the cost of medicines through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), with treatments for bowel cancer, breast cancer and cystic fibrosis among the new listings on the PBS. The ...

Key Budget measure won't help economy: Academic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2022
... mental healthcare is also expected, with investment in prevention likely alongside additions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. That's according to Macquarie University Centre for Health Economy director Henry Cutler, who added: "If its pre-election ...

Pension changes will impact retirement adequacy

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... to automatically qualify for a Commonwealth seniors health card, which gives them access to the pharmaceutical benefits scheme but that card for example doesn't give them access to a lot of state based benefits," Rundmann said. "In NSW for example if ...

Retirees face deflationary conundrum

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... services and pharmaceutical products reflect the annual cycles for the Medicare Benefits Scheme and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). The safety net threshold amount for both schemes were reset on 1 January 2016, so consumers resume paying the normal ...

Modest rise in retirement living costs: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... hospital services (+0.2%). The rise in pharmaceutical products was due to changes introduced under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Access and Sustainability Package. The rise was partially offset by a fall in therapeutic appliances and equipment ( ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... receive all the savings from the introduction of a $7 Medicare co-contribution, modest changes to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and other responsible changes in this Health Budget, until the Fund reaches $20 billion. Health services have never been ...

Retirement costs on the rise again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... (-3.5 per cent), which fell mainly as a result of a greater proportion of consumers exceeding the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme safety net compared to the September quarter 2012. ASFA said that over the long term, the underlying trend has been for significant ...

ASFA: Retirement costs on the rise

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... health services reflected a fall in pharmaceutical prices with more individuals benefiting from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme safety net. The ASFA Retirement Standard is now an independent initiative by the Association of Superannuation Funds of ...

Free trade deal goes public, but attacked over PBS

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2004
... unable to explain a key detail in the agreement which will allow decisions to exclude drugs from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to be reviewed. But the government and the man who led the negotiations, Stephen Deady, said the deal was in Australia's ...

FTA opponents to urge protection of health/culture

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2004
... organisations and more than 2,000 individuals to Trade Minister Mark Vaile urging the protection of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and Australian content rules for film and television. It comes as trade officials prepare to head for the US for the ...
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