House debates Questions without Notice
Medicare
Mark Coulton Parkes, National Party, Minister for Regional Health, Regional Communications and Local Government
3:03 pm
I welcome the opportunity to add to my last answer. The changes that were made were geographic. It was not changed by electorate; it was changed by geographical area from the Bureau of Statistics. I think it's important to note that rural bulk-billing incentives go to rural areas. That's the idea. The idea of rural and regional incentives is to support—
Mr Conroy interjecting—
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