Senator for NSW Tim Ayers says more Australians in regional NSW will get free visits to the GP if the Albanese Labor Government is re-elected, under their historic investment in Medicare.
From 1 November, Labor will expand bulk billing incentives to all Australians and create an additional new incentive payment for practices that bulk bill every patient, with an additional 12.5% loading payment on their Medicare rebates, resulting in 9 out of 10 GP visits to be bulk billed by 2030.
Across the state, there will be an additional 5 million bulk billed GP visits, saving locals hundreds of dollars a year, depending on where they live and how often they visit their GP.
Under Labor’s plan a retiree couple with typical GP service usage may save around $174 to $292 a year in out-of-pocket costs, if their practice goes fully bulk billing and their GP visits become free, an older family, with two parents in their 50s and two young adult children in their late teens or early 20s, may save around $264 to $389 a year while a younger family, with two parents in their 30s and two children under five years old, may save around $215 to $336 a year.
