Professor Stephen Duckett of the Grattan Institute has just reported that ‘Australians are paying too much for prescription drugs. The cost of this overpayment is at least $1.3 p.a.’ This is another example of the power of vested interests in the health sector and their ability to extract economic rents from the community. The other … Continue reading The Medicine Lobby. Vested interests win again. John Menadue… Continue reading »