Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I'll tell you what the college of general practice and other groups in the health sector tell all of us, including over on that side of parliament, and that is that six years of a freeze to the Medicare rebate, ripping away the ability to recruit overseas-trained doctors from 140 different general practice regions in 2018—which is what this question is about—

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