Kiwis drop NZD$5 script copay

July change will cost AUD$580.6m over four years, says NZ health minister The New Zealand government will remove its NZD$5 (AUD$4.69) copayment for prescription medicines, the country’s health minister Ayesha Verrall has announced. The move had been a widely-tipped element of the Welbeing Budget, handed down today (May 18, 2023), following a report earlier this