Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced the government will ditch plans for the $7 Medicare co-payment and instead pursue an optional co-payment, to be introduced at the same time the Medicare rebate to GPs is reduced by $5.
09/12/2014 - 14:47
Co-payment scrapped by government
09/12/2014 - 14:47
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