[Meta] the Australia rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the Australia rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. Short post, long comment section, probably. The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position. The two decisions that this whole board turns on, kept apart. Registration means a product may…
Flagged as describing the superseded compounded arrangements — left up with a note rather than removed.
Cosigning on asking the pharmacy to check the wholesaler. It converts speculation into a fact in one phone call.
Registration by the therapeutic goods regulator establishes that a product may be supplied. Subsidy listing is a separate decision about public funding, with its own criteria and its own timetable.
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
Pharmacy-level availability and national supply are different questions: a pharmacy can be out while the wholesaler is not, and the pharmacist can check in minutes.
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.