Independent recommendations to Medicare subsidies for eye injections could 'price people out of care'

Jackson Worthington
February 20 2021 - 10:00am
FEAR: Professor Brendan Vote is worried that people will be priced out of eye injections if the government accepts the recommendations of the independent taskforce. Picture: Craig George
FEAR: Professor Brendan Vote is worried that people will be priced out of eye injections if the government accepts the recommendations of the independent taskforce. Picture: Craig George

Every 10 weeks, 74-year-old Russell Sibbison gets an injection in each of his eyes. Without them his diabetes would slowly cause him to go blind.

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Jackson Worthington

General news reporter with a special interest in social justice, the economy and family violence. Jackson.Worthington@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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