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c/glp1aus·posted 11 months ago by u/week_one_wanda

someone explain PBS to me like I have not read a paper in years

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someone explain PBS to me like I have not read a paper in years. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months.

Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.

Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.

Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.

That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.

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u/dario_bakken51 points·11 months ago

Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.

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u/ffmi_watcher34 points·11 months ago

Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.

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u/lyophile_lou9 points·11 months ago

Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.

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