
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kemp, Robert 
T1  - Australia's "free-ride" in pharmaceuticals: Can it last?
JF  - Australian Health Review
JO  - Aust. Health Review
Y1  - 1996
VL  - 19
IS  - 1
SP  - 81
EP  - 94
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AH960081 
N2  - The pharmaceutical subsidy scheme in Australia works in the public interest bykeeping prices low while assuring access to drugs across most of the drug classes.By separating the approval to market drugs from the decision to subsidise them,the Commonwealth is able to take advantage of its position ? to ?free-ride? onresearch and development expenditure in other countries. The first part of this paperexamines the factors which allow Australia to free-ride. The second part exploressome international and domestic factors which may influence the sustainability ofthe free-riding strategy. 
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