What the Medicare Taskforce report really means for general practice

AusDoc’s essential, easy-to-read guide to the bits that are potentially important.
Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler. Photo: AAP

The Strengthening Medicare Taskforce’s report finally emerged on Friday to plenty of fanfare.

These 12 pages are meant to outline the Albanese Government’s overhaul of general practice funding: the fix to a Medicare crisis that the federal Minister for Health and Aged Care has described as the biggest crisis since Medicare’s very foundation.