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

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I apologise to you, because I remember very clearly you supporting Labor's policies to make it easier to see a doctor right through the election campaign. But I can tell you, Mr Speaker, I was lobbied to reverse the changes the former government made to, for example, bulk-billing incentives in DPA 2 areas like the Hunter Valley. I resisted that lobbying, because I thought it was important there be continued incentives in more rural and more regional areas, including higher bulk-billing rural incentives and higher incentives under the Workforce Incentive Program. (Time expired)

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