Anthony Albanese is pledging to expand telehealth services through the creation of a new Medicare hotline,ramming home what Labor sees as its greatest policy strength.
Labor has claimed the Coalition will shutter all existing Medicare urgent care clinics,despite an explicit vow from the Coalition that it will not do so.
Longer consults already attract a smaller rate of funding per minute than shorter consults. The gap is set to widen despite additional funding.
More than 1800 women told us their stories of medical misogyny. Today we begin sharing those stories and building the case for change.
Anthony Albanese’s announcement will give him a $1 billion rebuttal to Peter Dutton’s $900 million in mental health funding ahead of a leaders’ debate on Tuesday.
We take a look at the prime minister’s claim Dutton wanted to end bulk-billing and the Coalition’s claim grocery prices are up 30 per cent under Labor.
Labor will bring the patient co-payment for subsidised medicines down to $25 from $31.60 as it wages an election battle over healthcare.
In a letter penned to Anthony Albanese this week,Greens leader Adam Bandt had three key requests.
The survey also found 40 per cent of private hospital patients were being slugged with out-of-pocket specialist fees of more than $1000 – and many weren’t informed of all costs in advance.
Universal health care is expensive and getting more so,which is a problem when politicians like appearing to cut taxes and never increase them or introduce new ones.