{"id":53636,"date":"2025-08-08T19:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53636\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:29:31","slug":"heartbreaking-and-lifesaving-how-the-pbs-has-changed-lives-across-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53636\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Heartbreaking and lifesaving&#8217;: how the PBS has changed lives across Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is your prescription medicine on the PBS? How much does it cost you?<\/p>\n<p>For many the scheme is lifesaving, but for some 774 listeners it has let them down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raf Epstein spoke to Leah from Geelong, who requires an $800,000 drug for her rare neurological condition, while Ed from Bayswater lost his wife to cancer at just 39 because her treatment was not PBS-listed.<\/p>\n<p>Press play to hear these stories on ABC Radio Melbourne Mornings.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is your prescription medicine on the PBS? How much does it cost you? For many the scheme is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,20731,490,1679,1036],"class_list":{"0":"post-53636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mark-butler","12":"tag-medication","13":"tag-medicine","14":"tag-pbs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}