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Pharmac’s self-righteousness backfires

OPINION: There was no media release. No embargo. It was journalism. Pure and simple.

NBR columnist Rachel Smalley speaks with Calida Stuart-Menteath.

Much has been written about Pharmac’s actions this week, but it was probably best summed up in The Spinoff. Journalist Emily Writes compared our drug-buying agency’s approach to funding modern medicines with that of an English overlord.

She said Pharmac was a “…benevolent king bestowing

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