Medicines Australia today welcomed the Parliament's passage of a motion that the listing of new medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme should not be "subject to capricious political interference". Medicines Australia's acting chief executive Andrew Bruce said the motion should send a strong signal to Government that Australian voters want a return to the well-established, independent, non-political process for bringing new medicines onto the PBS. "I congratulate the Parliament for recognising the gravity of this issue," Mr Bruce said... 

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