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4. The prices of medicines are about to rise
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The details of the Free Trade Agreement have now been revealed and it
is bad
news for health care. The American drug companies got what they wanted.
Thanks
John Howard!

Australia had an amazing system to protect us from drug companies and
keep
everyone (rich or poor) healthy. (The cost of medicine in the US is
three times
that in Australia.) For some strange reason John Howard is going to
leave us
vulnerable. He wants to change the rules so that the drug companies can
make
more money. The good news is that if you jump up and down and make lots
of
noise you can make sure the prices of drugs remain the same by
encouraging them
to block the Free Trade Agreement.

So, if you want to stop the price of medicines from going up, you are
going to
have to write to Mark Latham or John Howard. Ask them to stop the
changes to
the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS) from going ahead. Their details
are:

Mark Latham
PO Box 191
Ingleburn NSW 1890
[email protected]

The Hon. John Howard MP
GPO Box 59
Sydney NSW 2001
http://www.pm.gov.au/email.cfm

To learn more about the FTA go to:
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/us.html

Note: The changes to the PBS as part of the Free Trade Agreement have
nothing
to do with the changes to Medicare.

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