Comment on GPs will soon get extra incentives to bulk bill. So will your doctor be free?
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 5 days ago
I’m so sick of this stupid subsidy model.
Make our public healthcare actually public ffs.
Medical staff should be very well paid employees, and we won’t have to pay excess profits to practice owners.
Those not willing to work in the public system should get ZERO Medicare dollars, and private health should be required to cover 100% of all costs for their members. i.e. if you’re covered by private health, you should no longer be covered by public health. Why? Because it’ll make private health terribly uncompetitive, which it is, it’s a ripoff.
The public employees can unionise like everyone else. And we would do well to keep them happy, so we don’t lose them to overseas competition.
End the bulk billing model so we’re not having to do this every couple of years… Just employ medical staff and make the service free.
I’m sick of this
HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
I’m hugely sympathetic to this.
Definitely anyone charging a fee to the patient, whether GP, or allied health, or specialist, should be getting nothing from Medicare. I also agree that public GP clinics ought to be a thing.
That said, given that there is not likely going to be a fundamental change in our model anytime soon, this is a good policy within our current framework.