00:00Over and over again ahead of the election.
00:07One card covers it all.
00:09The Prime Minister declared Australians only need one thing to access healthcare, a Medicare card.
00:15But new health department figures for September show the number of people seeing a doctor for free has flatlined.
00:22We just want the patients to adequately be rebated so they can come to their GP when they need to.
00:28Bulk billing rates are at 77.6%, the same as a year ago and well below pre-COVID levels.
00:35The number of GP consults has fallen by about 10,000 a day and average out-of-pocket costs have tipped over $50 for the first time.
00:44The Prime Minister quite clearly lied not just to us but to every Australian during the election campaign.
00:49Our government has made a record investment in Medicare.
00:54This was after a decade of absolute neglect.
00:58That investment includes $3.5 billion in 2023 to triple the bulk billing incentive for doctors seeing children and concession card holders.
01:08And this month a $7.9 billion election commitment to lift bulk billing rates to about 90% this decade began to roll out.
01:17We want fair remuneration so the rebates match what it costs to run a practice.
01:22The new scheme has just begun so it isn't reflected in the latest Medicare data.
01:27And the government says more than 1,000 clinics have already indicated they'll become fully bulk billed.
01:34But the opposition's applying pressure amid concerns people who can't afford to see their doctor will turn to already overburdened hospitals.
01:42Health officials have warned the benefits from government investments might not be seen for several years.
01:49Health officials have already.
01:50Health officials have already answered that question, and if you're not reading the proof that they would have benefited from,
01:51will try to be clear to them?
01:54What does the benefit of what they cannot afford to do to do?
01:55The programme is not possible, so the amount of information to do.
01:56It has beenordinary funding, including the medical�ast and the lemnary fund,
01:57the UN GRANT you, so the application or CSUNO.
01:58The programme is not possible.
01:59We'll try to apply to the NHS.
02:00The programme is not possible if there will be a benefit.
02:01It has not possible that the Chinese government will be a benefit.
02:02It has not been quoted from the NHS.
02:04The programme is not possible that you can follow up on a page of 1 Inn,
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