Examining the Feasibility of Increasing Bulk Billing

Labor and the opposition are in furious agreement, each committing to boost funding for Medicare to stop the decline in the number of GPs bulk billing.

But what was behind the fall in the first place and can $8.5 billion fix it? 

Today, health economist Stephen Duckett on how the bulk billing incentive policy could work and whether your GP is about to offer bulk billing. 

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Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor in the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne