Save Medicare. Save Bulk Billing. Put the Liberals last. Build a Better Future - Authorised by Dave Oliver, ACTU Secretary, Melbourne
looks very complicated:
www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-27/fact-check-bulk-billing-ra...
Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has promised a Labor government will remove a freeze on Medicare rebates paid to doctors from January 2017, saying this would "protect bulk billing".
But cabinet minister Josh Frydenberg told ABC News Breakfast that the Government would not remove the freeze and defended the policy, saying bulk billing rates had "increased substantially" under the Coalition.
"Importantly, bulk billing rates averaged under the Labor Party 79 per cent and they have gone up to 85 per cent," he said.
Have bulk billing rates increased during the Coalition's tenure?
tldr: yes, bulk billing rates have increased.
ie. Labour are scaremongering
Save Medicare. Save Bulk Billing. Put the Liberals last. Build a Better Future - Authorised by Dave Oliver, ACTU Secretary, Melbourne
looks very complicated:
www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-27/fact-check-bulk-billing-ra...
Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has promised a Labor government will remove a freeze on Medicare rebates paid to doctors from January 2017, saying this would "protect bulk billing".
But cabinet minister Josh Frydenberg told ABC News Breakfast that the Government would not remove the freeze and defended the policy, saying bulk billing rates had "increased substantially" under the Coalition.
"Importantly, bulk billing rates averaged under the Labor Party 79 per cent and they have gone up to 85 per cent," he said.
Have bulk billing rates increased during the Coalition's tenure?
tldr: yes, bulk billing rates have increased.
ie. Labour are scaremongering