The government will consider eight potential ways of expanding Medicare to help improve the smiles of Australians for between $2 billion and $11 billion a year.
A joint investigation by this masthead and 60 Minutes revealed patients around the country have been left deformed and feeling misled about the qualifications of podiatric surgeons.
Poor perceptions about the public health system and surgery waitlists are helping drive the trend.
The system for victim compensation is broken for everyone,but it’s particularly harsh on survivors of child sexual abuse.
People with autism are made to feel like we’re ripping off the system. But we know who the real villains are.
In the same year the Albanese government pledged to overhaul the health system,the proportion of GPs who said they bulk billed all their patients halved from 24 to 12 per cent.
The health minister said doctors had called the measure a game changer. But the College of GPs’ president has warned the PM it risks being squandered.
Sam Beitner fraudulently received more than $318,000 from the government by lodging false Medicare claims on behalf of hundreds of patients he never treated.
Paramedics say urgent care is their “bread and butter” and they could help ease the strain if GPs could employ them under Medicare.
Doctors and general practice owners have welcomed a decision by the Queensland government to not subject GPs to extra payroll taxes.
Pharmacists have proposed easing the burden on local GPs by being able to prescribe for things like chronic and dental pain.