Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'll take that interjection from the honourable member! Nowadays, GPs or people working in the sector are mainly employees and are often employed by businesses that operate for profit. Caring and profit can go together, but melding those two concepts can be difficult. Sometimes the caring slips and the profit is what's focused on. Obviously, no medical practitioner dreams about doing more paperwork, but the modern medical process is all about records—being able to access data and the like—so often that is outsourced to professional businesses, and that's where some of the errors can develop. The Philip review made a couple of recommendations in terms of making sure that we have more integrity in the Medicare system, and I commend this legislation to the House.

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