Coalition will seek to block Labor plan for cheaper medicine after backlash from pharmacies
Opposition won’t support 60-day dispensing policy that allows patients to buy two months of medicine for price of one over concerns community pharmacies will be forced to close
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The Coalition has asked the Senate to tear up changes allowing patients to buy two months of medicine for the price of one unless Labor pauses the policy and blunts the impact on pharmacies.
On Wednesday the shadow health minister, Anne Ruston, and Nationals Senate leader, Bridget McKenzie, announced if the Albanese government does not pause the 60-day dispensing policy they will seek to have it disallowed.
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