Bill
National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014
lapsed, as at 2016-04-17. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-06-18
- second reading — 2014-06-18
- second reading — 2014-07-15
- second reading — 2014-07-16
- second reading — 2014-07-16
- committee — 2014-07-16
- third reading — 2014-07-16
- introduced — 2014-07-17
- second reading — 2014-07-17
- other — 2016-04-17
Divisions
- National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 — Second Reading — Put the question (to read a second time) — 2014-07-16, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 82, noes 55
- National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 — Second Reading — Read a second time — 2014-07-16, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 82, noes 55
- National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 — Consideration in Detail — Put the question (to agree to the bill) — 2014-07-16, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 80, noes 56
- National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 — Consideration in Detail — Agree to the bill — 2014-07-16, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 80, noes 56
- National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 — Third Reading — Put the question (to suspend standing orders) — 2014-07-16, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 80, noes 54
- National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 — Third Reading — Suspend standing and sessional orders — 2014-07-16, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 80, noes 54
- National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 — Third Reading — Put the question (to read a third time) — 2014-07-16, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 80, noes 54
- National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 — Third Reading — Read a third time — 2014-07-16, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 79, noes 54
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-06-18.
This bill would make patients pay more for their medicines under two government schemes.
It does this by raising the amount patients must pay towards each prescription and the spending limits that trigger lower charges.
For concessional patients, the number of prescriptions needed to reach the lower-charge limit would rise by two each year from 2015 to 2018.
- Patient payments for each prescription would increase by 80 cents for concessional patients and $5.00 for general patients from 1 January 2015.
- The spending threshold that lowers charges would rise by two prescriptions each year for concessional patients and by 10 per cent each year for general patients from 2015 to 2018.
- These increases would be on top of the usual yearly price adjustment tied to the Consumer Price Index.
Patients who receive medicines subsidised through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme or the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
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