Butler said the average gap fee for a standard GP consult is now more than the Medicare rebate itself.
, Malinauskas said he had put national health reform at the centre of his conversations with the Commonwealth since he was elected in March.
Queensland’s acting premier Steven Miles said there had been a “slow choking” of the primary healthcare system for a decade, while a WA government spokeswoman said “it is clear some changes are needed to Medicare as a priority”. “Australia’s healthcare system is grappling with much more chronic disease, much more complex disease, which requires multidisciplinary care. And our system is not working well to deliver that multidisciplinary care, with health professionals working as teams,” Butler said.
Former Australian Medical Association president Dr Mukesh Haikerwal said the last major Commonwealth investment into Medicare was a $2.2 billion injection in mid-2000s.
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