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

The government is concerned about access to health care. In fact so concerned were we that we went to the last election promising to make the single largest investment in Medicare ever to deal with these circumstances. In the state of New South Wales, which your question refers to, the number of practices that have indicated through the EOI process that they will become Medicare bulk-billing practices—that is, practices that offer services for free for all their patients—is 904. That is an increase of 322 practices of those clinics that will be changing from mixed billing to fully bulk-billing in New South Wales.