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

I am very pleased to be asked about the historic investment that our government is making to repair the damage inflicted on Medicare and inflicted on bulk-billing by those opposite during the long period where they froze the rebates available to doctors and saw the rate of bulk-billing in freefall. It is simply true that, at the time of your government, bulk-billing rates, according to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, were in freefall.