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Labor and the Coalition have pledged to raise GP bulk billing. Here’s what the Medicare boost means for patients

  • Written by Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne

Labor yesterday foreshadowed a major Medicare change to address the falling rate of bulk billing, with an A$8.5 billion election announcement. The government said it would increase incentive payments for GPs to bulk bill all patients, from November 1 2025.

Today the Coalition said it would match Labor’s Medicare investment dollar-for-dollar.

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