Do doctors lack insight into the realities of being a politician in control of the health budget?
AusDoc reached out to someone with lived experience in both worlds: Dr Kim Hames.
Judged by the complaints they generate, you suspect everyone thinks it’s easy being politician.
So why the stupidity of the Medicare freeze, the experiments with pharmacy prescribing or plunging $8 billion into bulk-billing incentives that will leave most GPs worse off?
