Changes to PBS drugs

[lurker172602]

Do any of the LNP supporters on here want to tell me what's good about this government's recent changes to the PBS, that has increased the cost of one of my husbands life preserving medications from $37 to $150?

They snuck that one through pretty quietly. First thing we knew about it was when he had to get a prescription filled today.

[lyndal1838]

I asked the doctor about it the next time I saw him.....he was also my doctor at the time.   He told me that it was the only painkiller that the government allowed them to prescribe for pensioners for that very reason...it was cheap.   It was the cheap equivalent of Panadol.

If the chemist could sell it for $1.85 it sure did not cost the government as much as that.

[polksaladallie]

Then your doctor was a quack.  He should not have prescribed the drug, but told his patient it was available over the counter.   If the doctor didn't know that, the chemist was the one ripping off the customer if he/she was willing to take extra money from the patient.  It is not compulsory to have prescriptions filled.

[lyndal1838]

If you had read my post you would know that the chemist did tell me that the medication was available over the counter so no-one was ripped off.  I resent you saying anyone is a quack.....you don't know him at all.

The patient was 93 years old and blind.....without having a prescription to send to the chemist she would probably not heve been given the medication.  Usually the doctor dropped the scripts into the chemist and it was delivered by the chemist to my neighbour.

In this case I offered to take her scripts to the chemist as I was going there anyway.

[polksaladallie]

Thank you.  You have demonstrated that the government is not ripping pensioners off, which was my original point.

[lyndal1838]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Thank you.  You have demonstrated that the government is not ripping pensioners off, which was my original point.

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Please explain how I have demonstrated this?