“These politicians are promising what they can’t promise!”

This is the quote from Adjunct Clinical Professor Karen Price this week.

The former RACGP president was angered by the Federal Government’s drive to get GPs to return to universal bulk-billing in a multi-billion dollar spend on bulk-billing incentives for non-concession card holders.

Whatever the result of the next federal election — whether the Prime Minister is Peter Dutton or a second-term Anthony Albanese — this policy is coming. It took Mr Dutton less than four hours of deliberation before he was signing up.