Are the states about to take over the running of rural GP services?
There's talk of topping up the incomes of GPs who bulk-bill
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“Medicare is not financially sustainable for GPs to go into practice on their own anymore; the days of having a family doctor are long gone.”
It sounds kind of right but also seriously wrong — the days of having a GP are not long gone, surely. Things are not that bad.