Tammy Tyrrell (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

The Medicare Benefits Schedule Review Advisory Committee is recommending stopping Medicare rebates for initial consults with a specialist via telehealth, including for psychiatry. What does the government have to say to Australians who will be forced to choose between $1,000 out of pocket to get immediate care via telehealth or waiting over 12 months to see someone face to face just so they can get the rebate? I hear that the mainland numbers went down, but Tasmanian numbers went up.