Brett Mason (Queensland, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Brown, if you supported this bill then we could fix the problem. This is the problem—that the drugs I mentioned before are generic drugs and the market has not been able to operate with respect to them. They are copies of drugs. If you supported this bill, as I think you should, you would find that these drugs would be potentially one-fifth of the cost currently being charged to taxpayers. The drugs I mentioned before are generic drugs and they will be about 70 per cent or 80 per cent cheaper if you support this bill.