Comment on GP visits to become free for most under $8.5b Labor [campaign] Medicare promise
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 month agoThe medical centre we had on the Gold Coast bulk billed, it also operated 7 days a week and we could walk there and often get a same day apoinment or next day at worse.
Didn’t really appreicate it until i moved to Tassie 2 yeaes ago and a 10min phone appointment costs me $140 and I have to book a fortnight in advance and they shut all sorts of hours fir the occasional visit.
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Here’s a crazy idea, we could just employ health workers directly. Cut out the practice owners making a profit/charging rent to the doctors practicing out of their location.
Just not make the insane mistake the UK made by not paying health workers competitively. There’s a reason we have so many ex-NHS staff working in Australia, lol
We are super wealthy per capita by international standards, we could absolutely afford it. (If we bothered taxing the multinationals shipping our minerals overseas…)