PM calls the war ‘immoral’ and Dutton says resolution must not reward ‘murderous’ Putin. Follow today’s news liveHealth will no doubt be a key focus of the election, and you can see Labor’s attacks on the Coalition’s medicare history are having an impact.For a little more context on why it took Peter Dutton less than a day to match Labor’s $8.5bn bulk-billing commitment, have a read of my colleague Josh Butler’s analysis here.He [Dutton] tried to introduce the $7 GP co-payment. He said too many visits to the doctor were bulk-billed, tried to put up the cost of medicines and cut $50 billion from hospital funding… Now, five minutes before an election he says something else. I remember when Tony Abbott promised no cuts to healthcare and then he came in, and he slashed and he burned.We judge Peter Dutton on his record, and his record as health minister is about cuts and reducing services and cutting back Medicare. And you know, some of the problems we have with Medicare right now, some of the pressures that people have been seeing when they’ve been going to see a doctor that don’t happen overnight, they happen as a result of those six years of freezing of income for GPs. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2025-02-23 20:43:00
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