The Medicare Review Taskforce is suggesting changing Medicare rules to allow GPs to charge fees in bulk-billed consults to cover the cost of wound dressings.

It has been widely welcomed by GPs as a mechanism to improve care; although Federal Minister for Health Greg Hunt has quickly ruled it out.

In an article originally published on the Croakey website last month, Margaret Faux and Heather Grain explain why they believe the reform proposal was seriously flawed.

Everyone hoped for a better start to 2021, but less than one month in and we have already witnessed sedition, insurrection, impeachment, bushfires, earthquakes, the COVID-19 crisis worsening in many countries, and now Medicare copayments are back!