Re: Are medications a lot more expensive in the US? » socialphobic

Posted by Mickapoo on October 3, 2008, at 10:21:08

In reply to Are medications a lot more expensive in the US?, posted by socialphobic on September 27, 2008, at 8:10:16

>Do they have a PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) where the government pays a large proportion of the medication?
>
Nope, the only thing we have similar to that in the U.S. would be a "Medicaid" program, which is sort of a welfare program, but you have to be extremely low income with very little assets (cars, money in bank, etc...) to qualify.

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