What the Medicare Taskforce report really means for general practice
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.
This is AusDoc’s essential guide to the bits that are potentially important.
The report is empty of specifics; there are no hard-cash figures or hard-detailed policies.