{"id":55234,"date":"2025-08-08T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55234\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:42:32","slug":"heartbreaking-and-lifesaving-how-the-pbs-has-changed-lives-across-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55234\/","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":55235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,18178,377,1058,4972],"class_list":["post-55234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mark-butler","tag-medication","tag-medicine","tag-pbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}