Labor's Medicare announcement is a ‘sham Mediscare scam'
Menzies Research Centre Senior Fellow Nick Cater comments on the government's Medicare announcement, claiming it's a 'sham Mediscare scam'.
'It's taken a while for this sham mediscare scam to start unravelling, hasn't it, Peta – I mean, the fact is that bulk billing episodes are down by 12 per cent under this government,' Mr Cater said.
'The 14,000,000 extra bulk billing sessions that the Prime Minister promises that won't even barely take them up to where they were when they came into office.
'So, this is absolute scare; it's a shocker.'
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