Minister, you’re the one who needs to shop around – for a new job

According to Health Minister Mark Butler, patients just need to shop around to find a bulk-billing GP.
Whichever member of his staff gave him the idea for that press statement should be sacked.
The minister should also be sacked for his failure to recognise that the advice to “ring around” is self-evidently stupid.
Retirement rates of GPs are going up, and recruitment into general practice is going down.