18 June 2019 - Opposition politicians have turned their sights on what they say is an embarrassingly small funding increase for the national drug-buying agency in a Government Budget that was meant to focus on health.

While the Budget this year featured significant increases in areas such as mental health, PHARMAC got $10 million extra for the year – just over a 1% bump in the context of a nearly $1 billion annual budget.

National MPs in Parliament on Tuesday were determined to try to jab what they see as a gap in the Government's "Wellbeing Budget" armour.

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