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The PBS at its best, Mark. Really?
Posted 29 June 2026 AM
Following a week-long hammering from The Australian newspaper over the failing PBS, Health Minister Mark Butler has curiously chosen a treatment that took almost five years and a series of bitter negotiations to reach patients, to illustrate the scheme "at its best."
In an opinion piece published in the Weekend Australian, the Minister singled out Johnson & Johnson's CAR T cell therapy Carvykti for multiple myeloma, as a shining example of the scheme operating at its finest.
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