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Close to 500k Australians could have missed out on savings at the pharmacy [from the PBS Safety Net] (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In short:

Pharmacists say the bureaucracy of the PBS Safety Net, a government scheme which gives millions of Australians cheaper medicine, is so "clunky" thousands of people are missing out.

Examples of the scheme's shortcomings, advocates say, include needing to use snail mail to file paperwork and not having a centralised system to calculate patients' spending.

What's next?

Consumer advocates and pharmacists have called on the government to invest in the scheme.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The thing is, that prescription history is still saved as far as I'm aware, you just don't have access to it without a MyHealthRecord. That's, no offence, kind of the misconception a lot of folks had about MHR. All that data is collected about you either way and already had been for years.

The other thing about it people got shitty about is that when a child turns 14 their parent loses access to their MHR. However, that's just in line with the rest of our medicare rules that mean a 14yo can access healthcare privately and independently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It never occurred to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Prescriptions are only a small part of our health record.