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What changes for hospitals and medicine costs from 1 July?
A government senator asked a government minister what arrives on 1 July — Question Time's friendly side, and this card says so. The answer listed hospital funding, urgent care clinics and new PBS listings. You judge: does it answer the question asked?
Asked · Senator Carol Brown (Labor, Tas): How is the government investing in hospitals, and how is it making more medicines cheaper from tomorrow?
Answered · Senator McAllister (representing the Minister for Health and Ageing): The minister pointed to $5.1 billion in hospital funding for Tasmania over five years, all 137 urgent care clinics becoming permanent and bulk-billing from 1 July, and ten new PBS listings capped at $25 — including an asthma treatment that currently costs up to $1,600 an injection.
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