Has the government given up on GPs bulk-billing all patients?
The government claims 11 million patients are going to benefit.
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Tripling Medicare’s bulk-billing incentives was the centrepiece of the Federal Government’s budget sell.
According to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, when the funding starts to flow in November, “more doctors will bulk-bill as a consequence of us paying them three times what they were getting before to do it”.