The Pharmacy Guild does its best to suppress competition. Regarding the PBS, the government tried to make it easier/cheaper to get repeat prescriptions and the

The 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.