Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

The Albanese Labor government is delivering the largest-ever investment in the history of Medicare. There is $8½ billion to expand bulk-billing and create an additional new incentive payment for practices that bulk-bill every patient, and it begins to roll out from Saturday 1 November. It means that nine out of 10 GP visits will be bulk-billed by 2030 and fully bulk-billed practices will grow to around 4,800 nationally—triple the current number. The government has already heard from hundreds of practices who've told us that this week they're charging a gap fee and next week they'll be moving to a fully bulk-billed service. This investment is the cornerstone of our plan to rebuild bulk-billing after a decade of coalition neglect which saw billions of dollars ripped out of Medicare, because we believe— (Time expired)