It appears that doctors are now the government’s scapegoats.

With the Commonwealth budget in trillions of dollars of debt, it is reasonable that the government determines every dollar of taxpayers’ funds is spent efficiently.

Undoubtedly, there is abuse of Medicare item numbers. But this is only a very small fraction of bulk-billing claims.

It would surprise many that many GPs earn less than tradesmen. GPs earn significantly less than their specialist collegues.