For menopausal women, the hormone replacement therapies Prometrium, Estrogel and Estrogel Pro – or estradiol and progesterone – will go on the PBS for the first time in 20 years. About 150,000 women using those treatments currently pay up to $670 a year, but this will come down to $380, a saving of $290.
Contraceptive pills Yaz and Yasmin, which are used by 50,000 women and typically cost $380 a year, will be the first new oral contraceptives added to the PBS in more than 30 years. Government subsidies will bring them down to $126 a year, or $31 for concession cardholders, saving $254. Both changes will come into effect on March 1.
Great that this isn’t an election pledge. It’s coming in on March 1!
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Would be good if this was extended to include trans women as well
It probably does, unless it’s explicitly post menopause hrt. Regardless it’s fantastic news, well do I know how much having a hormone deficit can fuck up your life ;)
edit: seems it’s explicitly post menopause women. Find a doctor who will defraud the system, since the same reasons justify their inclusion for at least older transwomen where liver function is maybe not so great.
Absolutely!