Posted by jono_in_adelaide on September 16, 2012, at 23:02:41
In reply to Re: new healthcare law and drug patient assist program » herpills, posted by Phillipa on September 16, 2012, at 21:03:27
Australia has a full range of meds avaliable, and we pay a fair price for them. If a new med comes out, and its better than an existing drug 9as the atypical antipsychotics were, or celebrex was) we pay more for it, but, for example, when a new ACE inhibitor comes out, if the manufacture cant show that it is better than the 5 other ACE inhibitors on the list, then they only get the same price as the other 5 if they want it on the national insurance list.
Atypicals were expensive here (to the health scheme, not the patient) but when they went generic, the prices have dropped dramaticly.
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