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Health
Maeve Bannister

Call to put patients before profits in budget measures

The Pharmacy Guild has proposed the cap on medicine payments be reduced from $30 to $19. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Patients must be put before profits, warns a peak body representing doctors as pressure mounts for the federal budget to address rising medical costs.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is due to hand down the budget in four weeks as the cost of living increases along with the burden on the health care system.

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