FREE MEDICINE
Australian Scheme TO BE FINANCED FROM INCOME TAX. (Rec. 9.50.) SYDNEY, Nov. 30. The Minister of Health, Senator Fraser, has announced that the Federal Government intends to introduce a scheme for free medicine in Australia. It is understood that the legislation will be introduced early next year, as the first instalment of national schemes covering all medical services and medicine. The Medical Survey Committee has reported that twelve million prescriptions are dispensed annually under doctors’ orders. A free issue of prescribed medicine will be financed from a National Service Fund of thirty million pounds, which will be collected annually from income tax. The estimated cost of the scheme is about four million pounds yearly. The Committee reports that approximately three hundred and twenty prescriptions are listed in the Australian war pharmacopoeia, which, it suggests, would form a suitable basis for the scheme.
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Grey River Argus, 1 December 1943, Page 3
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144FREE MEDICINE Grey River Argus, 1 December 1943, Page 3
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