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In 1944, the Curtin Labor government passed the Pharmaceutical Benefits Act 1944 [1] [2] as part of a wider plan to create a British-style National Health Service. The Act was an extension of the similar Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme established in 1919 for Australian servicemen and women who had served in the Boer War and World ...
the Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS) which assists with the costs of some medicines and therapies and My Aged Care ( MAC ), which provides contributions towards the cost of aged care services. Medicare contributions to health services are only made for Australian citizens and permanent residents.
The National Health Act 1953 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia, which administers pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, alongside medical and dental services. The Act was passed in 1953 in the Fifth Menzies Ministry , under the second Menzies Government , with its "chief architect" being the then Minister for Health ...
Australian Patriotic Association (1835) Women ... On 3 September 1939 Britain and France ... the Menzies government introduced a new pharmaceutical benefits scheme ...
Attorney-General (Vic); Ex rel Dale v Commonwealth, [1] commonly known as the "First Pharmaceutical Benefits case", [2] was a High Court of Australia decision. The case dealt with limits of the powers of the Australian Federal Government under section 81 of the Constitution of Australia, [3] to take and spend money by legislation, in this case to fund reduced prices for prescription medicines.
In Australia, where there is a public health care system, medications are subsidised under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and medications that are available under the PBS and the indications for which they can be obtained under said scheme can be found in at least two places, the PBS webpage [2] and the Australian Medicines Handbook.
The federal government's Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme was established in 1919 for Australian servicemen and women who had served in the Boer War and World War I. This allowed them to receive certain pharmaceuticals for free. In 1926, the Royal Commission on Health found that a national health insurance scheme should be ...
The price of many Schedule 4 substances are subsidized by the Australian Government through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), when prescribed by an authorised prescriber. Certain medications may require an authority from the PBS. Situations that may require an authority include where the drug may only have benefit in limited conditions ...