House debates
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Bills
National Health Amendment (Cheaper Medicines) Bill 2025; Second Reading
11:35 am
Peter Khalil (Wills, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source
I heard a hundred. It's actually $968. If ever we needed proof about the brilliance and importance of the PBS as something that's critical to our healthcare system in Australia, there it is. Thanks to the Albanese Labor government's massive investment into the PBS, families like Lucinda's will have certainty around the cost of medication moving forward.
I also met on another occasion a retiree by the name of Alex. In Alex's older years, he's developed high blood pressure. High blood pressure actually affects about 42 per cent of Australians over the age of 75. If Alex was living in the US and his blood pressure went up, and it would go up because of the politics there, his high blood pressure medication would cost—I'm going to try asking again. Does anyone know how much this would cost him in the US?
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