An opportunity to reset the agenda. Patient focused with all the health professionals including GPs, working to their full capacity together, being paid properly in such challenging circumstances. Also see drs.org.au/articles/rorts…

Medicare taskforce release good rhetoric, correct direction. No agreement on detail. Years to implement. Need more help NOW to address access to GP and other services. Pharmacists could help but many caveats.

Medicare reform, please act now Minister. There are things you can do immediately to improve access for the most vulnerable whilst we wait for huge Medicare reconstruction

One of the local GP practices in my area has closed down. They were long established and well regarded. Why? Because general practice is unviable if your patients can't pay. amansw.com.au/gp-crisis/

Bulk Billing for Patients: Radical Ideas to Achieve a Fair Go Welcomed. See theaustralian.com.au/nation/optin-i… Our thoughts below or drs.org.au/media_releases… Melissa Sweet @NC_Robinson AHCRA Dr Monique Ryan MP @sop

Save Money or Save Patients: What is Medicare About? Robo-debt 2! time for big changes Mandy Presland Doctors Reform Society @AusHealhReform @NC_Robinson Melissa Sweet Dr Monique Ryan MP

2 months prescriptions: winners=patients doctors medical practices Gov. Losers=pharmacists. Savings reinvested in pharmacies but how? ALP taken on 1 union, will it take on doctors union, AMA next. @NC_Robinson Doctors Reform Society Melissa Sweet AHCRA

Medicare Restructure A Start. 1/2 as much as needed. No action on current bulk billing crisis. An emergency ignored. Poverty kills so why keep dole below poverty line. Doctors Reform Society @LaTrioi ABC Adelaide AHCRA Melissa Sweet

At last a move which will stop evolving bbillilng crisis. cheaper drugs. And more long term measures to help rebuild Medicare. Even addresses growing income/wealth inequality a bit AHCRA ABC News Melissa Sweet Doctors Reform Society Latika M Bourke Mónica Acebrón

Labor is not doing enough to address equity. It has policies but isn't implementing them. Instead it punishes the sick for being sick. Article from DRS Maria @NC_Robinson @Sue_Dunlevy Senator Jordon Steele-John Dr Monique Ryan MP Dr Sophie Scamps MP

We’re proud to be among these organisational signatories. Self-determination is a social determinant of health.

Vale Bill Hayden 1975 Medibank, later Medicare introduced. Bill Hayden key to negotiations with doctors/States to give all Australians public health insurance to see doctors in community/ access to public hospitals without charge. His legacy lives on. Thank you Bill.

Ceasefire Now: Australian Health Care Workers change.org/p/call-for-cea… Please sign on

Fairfax reports Grattan Institute finding covid outcomes directly related to SEStatus. So are all health outcomes. Time for Fed G to commit to adjust all bulk health payments for SEStatus. Lets do it. Melissa Sweet AHCRA Natassia Chrysanthos

“It’s difficult not to speculate, then, about what might happen to waiting lists and ambulance ramping if the federal government were to give $9.5 billion every year to public hospitals instead of to the private health industry.” themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/apr…

What ever happened to the repair of Medicare with structural reforms and comprehensive primary care. Forgotten in the budget AHCRA Croakey News Stephen Duckett Australian Greens

Proud to join with Doctors Reform Society Au/NZ Doctors for #palestine and Network of Women in #emergencymedicine to call once again for decisive action to protect life in #Gaza.

Australia can afford to make GP visits free at the point of care. This article has some of the right ideas: theconversation.com/australia-can-… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

“…it is worth remembering that private health insurance is a terrible way to deliver good health outcomes.” theguardian.com/business/grogo…

The Doctors Reform Society Welcome Band-aids, but Medicare needs Major Surgery drs.org.au/media_releases… #electionbudget2025 #auspol #mark_butler_mp