someone explain shortage to me like I have not read a paper in years
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: someone explain shortage to me like I have not read a paper in years.
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.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
The two decisions that this whole board turns on, kept apart.
Registration means a product may lawfully be supplied. Subsidy listing means the public system will fund it, for a defined indication, against published criteria. They are made by different bodies on different timetables, and a product can be registered and unsubsidised for a given use for a long time.
Almost every "why can I not get this" thread here is really a question about the second decision being answered with facts about the first. Say which one you are asking about and the thread resolves in two replies.
PBS listing and TGA registration are two different questions
The national shortage database is a primary source with expected resolution dates attached. It is public, searchable, and consistently more accurate than reporting about it.
Disagree — that is registration status, and the question was about subsidy. Different decisions, different bodies.
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.
That is a pharmacy-level stock issue rather than a national supply issue. They feel identical and are not.
Country added to the title. Australia and New Zealand answers differ and the thread was unusable without it.
the price you pay depends on the listing status of your indication
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.
Same. Private pricing varies here as much as anywhere and people assume it is fixed.
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
do not import US advice into an Australian thread
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
Same.
Agreed — the database rather than the coverage, every time.
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.
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