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原文在这里。关键部分(non bulkbilling gp)怎么漏翻了? 这中文新闻真误导人,唉
而且,就算non bulk billing,也就涨了$2
出处: daily telegraph
PATIENTS will have to pay $35 out of their own pocket to see a non-bulk billing GP from next month as
Medicare rebates fail to keep pace with medical inflation.
An illness will burn a $70 hole in the hip pocket when patients also need to have a prescription filled, costing them up to a further $35.40.
And bizarrely, Medicare rebates for seeing a nurse practitioner will be higher than the rebate for seeing some doctors.
The Australian Medical Association is recommending that from November 1 doctors raise their fees by $2 to $71 for a consultation that lasts between 6-20 minutes.
However, the government has announced it will raise the Medicare rebate by just 70 cents to $36.30.
This means a patient who sees a non-bulk billing doctor will face a gap fee of $34.70.
AMA vice president Professor Geoffrey Dobb said the Medicare rebate rise failed "dismally to reflect the true value of quality medical care in Australia".
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When it was introduced in 1984 the Medicare rebate covered 85 per cent of a doctor's fees but the government has tried to contain health costs by failing to index the rebate to medical inflation and it now covers just 51 per cent of a doctor's charges.
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