Health

Tue Jan 31

If GPs pass on cost from rebate freeze, poorer, sicker patients will be hardest hit

Written by Rosemary Elkins, Research Assistant - School of Economics, University of Sydney

The freeze on GP rebates from 2014 to 2020 will mean many GPs will have to make up the cost from patients. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Not even a fortnight in the job and the newly appointed health minister, Greg Hunt, is already facing pressure from medical organisations to scrap the controversial freeze on Medicare rebate indexation.

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