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Budget delivers cheaper medicines and more bulk billing but leaves out long-term health reform

By Henry Cutler, Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University

Australians will save on the costs of scripts and on GP visits. But the budget doesn’t start the reforms needed to secure the health system’s long-term future.

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