3 March 2021 - New Zealand’s drug buying agency PHARMAC has long been, simultaneously, a good thing in itself and a focus for angry and heartbroken reproach.

In some measure, that’s unavoidable. The agency decides what lifesaving and life-transforming drugs are to be supplied - and denied - to New Zealanders. 

People suffer and die when it makes bad calls. Also when it makes good ones. Such is the cruelty of prioritising under a fixed budget.

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