House debates
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Questions without Notice
Budget
2:27 pm
Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source
The short answer is yes and yes. We were advised in the lead-up to the budget that, as a result of the decision by the government to charge a modest co-payment or to seek to have a modest co-payment for visits to the GP and visits to the diagnostician, there could be a one per cent reduction in the total usage of these services. At the moment, there are well over 100 million GP visits a year, and about a one per cent reduction to these services was the estimate we were given.
Ms Macklin interjecting—
Ms Butler interjecting—
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