Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Prime Minister. I refer to the petition of more than 2,500 GPs calling on the Prime Minister to abandon his GP tax and to a GP registrar in the member for Corangamite's electorate who writes, 'The $7 GP tax will make regular visits for some patients unaffordable. I genuinely fear that they will refuse visits and fail to have proper management of their heart failure, diabetes and chronic lung disease.' Why should sick and elderly patients in Corangamite be stopped from getting the treatment they need because of the Prime Minister's GP tax?

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