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New Medicare benefit would limit insulin copays to $35 a month

Reacting to skyrocketing prices for insulin, the Trump Administration announced on Tuesday a new benefit that would limit Medicare recipients’ copays for insulin to a maximum of $35 a month and save them about $446 a year if they have prescription plans that offer the benefit. Instead of the fluctuating copay amounts that are common […]

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What would people say? What would people think?

I couldn’t quite work out what was going on. It was the week before Christmas, and I was about to be sworn in as a Member of Victoria’s Parliament. By confronting the culture of silence that surrounds mental illness, we can confront the stigma that so often allows it to prevail. For my colleagues, it […]

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Removing Medicare exclusion would improve prisoner health

An expert in prisoner health from The University of Western Australia is calling for the Federal Government to stop excluding prisoners from Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) to improve health outcomes and close the gap for Aboriginal people. In an article published in the Journal of Law and Medicine Research Fellow Craig Cumming, […]