Health budget has big changes – reviving our worn-out Medicare fee-for-service system and boosting bulk billing
- Written by: Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
There were four major changes for health care in the 2023-24 budget: prioritising primary care, funding to strengthen Medicare, cheaper access to common medicines, and new funding to keep the digital health system going. Many of these changes were foreshadowed in recent weeks.
The big news on budget night was a tripling of the bulk-billing...
