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

That's why so many other countries have been doing this for years, and that's why every doctors group, every patient group, has strongly supported the policy of 60-day scripts.

But I'm asked who stood in the way of this policy. Well, five years ago those opposite stood in the way of cheaper medicines by refusing to accept exactly the same advice from the medicines experts as we received last summer.

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