Will the US trade war push up the price of medicines in Australia? Will there be drug shortages?

By Anthony Scott, Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University
Jing Jing Li, Senior Research Fellow and Team Lead for Health Technology Assessment, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University
Peter Ghijben, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University

All this talk of a US-Australia trade war has left consumers wondering what this means for them. At least in the short term, it looks like good news.

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