Dr Nick Coatsworth: Tony Abbott’s notorious $7 co-payment plan was probably a good idea

'Now, we have patients paying $100 to see a GP, not $7,' he says.
Tony Abbott announces the $7 co-payment plan is being dumped, 9 December 2014. Photo: AAP

It was a policy disaster that brought Tony Abbott’s reign as Australian Prime Minister to an early end.

Now, it is being suggested that time has shown those who raged against his $7 co-payment vision were very, very wrong.