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Money given to GPs from ending the Medicare rebate freeze should target reform

  • Written by Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imageGeneral practice in Australia needs reform.from shutterstock.com

If the whispers are right, the Medicare rebate freeze will be partially lifted in next week’s federal budget, at a cost of half-a-billion dollars.

The previous Labor government introduced the freeze in 2013 as part of a A$664 million budget savings plan. The freeze, which the...

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