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

who need to access general practice, who need to access health care, and you have failed the members of your communities.

And what will that affect? From the GP in Ingham we know what the effect on nurses will be if the government gets its way and also introduces a tax on hospital visits.

Stephen Duckett from the Grattan Institute—someone who knows something about the health system and how to increase efficiency—has stated:

If just one in four patients chose to go to a hospital emergency department, the Commonwealth will save no money because of the much higher costs of emergency department care; costs that the Commonwealth government now shares.

And this is precisely what this government's GP tax will do.

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