{"id":100655,"date":"2025-07-29T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100655\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:00:09","slug":"health-promises-high-on-the-agenda-as-parliament-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100655\/","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<ul class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowVisible__N2zKU List_unordered__yNZx8\" data-component=\"List\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><strong>Guest: <\/strong>Mark Butler, Minister for Health, Disability and Ageing<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><strong>Producers: <\/strong>Lexie Jeuniewic and Teodora Agarici\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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":3,"featured_media":100656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[65587,55794,454,210,606,11802,3235,1060,23967,65586,65588,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-100655","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","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114933584675724091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}