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Patients will be able to buy two months of medicine from pharmacies for price of one, saving more than $1.6bn over four years
The government says the changes will halve medication costs for eligible Australians, but the pharmacy sector has been lobbying against the shift.
Moves to change prescription medication dispensation hit a hurdle.
Australians will be able to get cheaper medications from September 1 after the Parliament passed the Government's changes to allow 60-day dispensing and a last-ditch effort by the Coalition to block it failed.
Moves to change prescription medication dispensation hit a hurdle.