Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

There has been a lot of misinformation put out on this. I thought I covered, in my answer to the primary question, most of the information that was pertinently necessary to explain what had happened. We now have a range of people making a range of claims who need to realise the answer that I gave to the primary question still holds for the supplementary question.

To be clear, if you are asking how much cancer patients pay for their cancer drugs, the cancer drug patients pay no more than one PBS copayment for the first prescription dispensed, with no additional copayment for repeated prescriptions. A patient will pay $5.80 or $35.40 for the first injection or infusion of the drug but not for the repeats. There have been no budget cuts in this area. What there has been is an expansion— (Time expired)

Senator Boyce interjecting—