{"id":43775,"date":"2025-07-28T23:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43775\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T23:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:39:07","slug":"health-promises-high-on-the-agenda-as-parliament-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43775\/","title":{"rendered":"Health promises high on the agenda as parliament resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese&#8217;s green Medicare card and big promises worth billions to improve Australia&#8217;s healthcare system were staples of Labor&#8217;s election campaign earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the returned government is set to begin delivering on some of those pledges, starting with new legislation to cut the price of PBS medicines to 25 dollars.day.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Mark Butler, Minister for Health, Disability and AgeingProducers: Lexie Jeuniewic and Teodora Agarici\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese&#8217;s green Medicare card and big promises worth billions to improve Australia&#8217;s healthcare system were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[34884,34883,2420,97,1929,28909,1342,243,13027,34882,34885],"class_list":{"0":"post-43775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-albanese","9":"tag-federal-politics","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-labor","13":"tag-mark-butler","14":"tag-medicare","15":"tag-medication","16":"tag-pbs","17":"tag-radio-national-breakfast","18":"tag-sally-sara"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}