FULL INTERVIEW: Labor Leader Bill Shorten has announced a $2.3 billion Medicare cancer plan during his budget reply speech on Thursday night, which he says is the ‘most significant investment in Medicare in a generation’.
Speaking with Sky News, Shadow Health Minister Catherine King says the rate that the Medicare rebate is currently set quite low, explaining that Labor will raise it to around $150 from about $60. Ms King says Labor has had all its policies in the Medicare plan costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office. Image: News Corp Australia
CatherineKingMP CatherineKingMP I do hope that along with this large injection of taxpayers money into doctors’ surgeries there will be some measurable health outcomes recorded by surgeries and published to demonstrate effectiveness of further spending. What is being planned?
CatherineKingMP How much will Drs put their prices up? Recipe for higher cost and inflation.
CatherineKingMP Yeah, and they'd have to increase the Medicare levy to 2.5 %.
CatherineKingMP Why are they doing this. Do the doctors need more summer houses or another new BMW. Probably to keep Phelps onside to boost her retirement fund
CatherineKingMP As if greedy millionaire Doctors aren't paid enough already!
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