Reform is needed, but will the current Bill enact the best options?
Two articles in this issue of the Journal1,2 comment on a complex but important piece of legislation put forward by the Minister for Health and Ageing — the National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2007 (the Bill).3
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Ken Harvey is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the ALP candidate for Kooyong in the forthcoming federal election. Anthony Harris and Liliana Bulfone are part of a group at Monash University providing commentaries to the Australian Government on submissions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee.