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PBS covered medications are extremely cheap compared to other countries. I had to stay longer in the US than planned a few years ago, and just about needed a se
by dann0 3y ago
PBS covered medications are extremely cheap compared to other countries. I had to stay longer in the US than planned a few years ago, and just about needed a second mortgage to get my fairly standard meds. Unaffordable without insurance.
If you don’t like your pharmacist, shop elsewhere. There are plenty of excellent ones with a strong desire to help. They probably don’t work at Chemist Warehouse though.
- bbbrerfi88 3y agoThe Pharmacy Guild does its best to suppress competition. Regarding the PBS, the government tried to make it easier/cheaper to get repeat prescriptions and they lobbied hard against it, turning pharmacies into party-political platforms, so the chronically sick and elderly would be forced to go in every month instead of every two months in the hope that they’d buy their retail products. They lobby aggressively. To get a prescription delivered home in Australia, you need to physically post the original prescription. Total regulatory capture.