Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

It is not for the first time that government has got this advice, because five years ago the former government got the same advice from the same advisory committee, and, instead of choosing the interest of patients, they chose to do nothing. Over those five years, hundreds of millions of dollars have been paid by patients when their medicines' experts told them they didn't have to.

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