Mark Butler on pushing for cheaper medicine through the Coalition ‘circus’
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Around six million Australians will have the cost of their medicines halved from 1 September as the Labor’s 60-day dispensing changes pass the Senate, despite a last-ditch Coalition-led effort to block the scheme. Chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks with Mark Butler, the federal minister for health and aged care, about opposition to the scheme from the pharmacy lobby, cross-jurisdictional crackdowns on vaping and the circumstances impacting the urgent care clinic rollout
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