There are fears the third consecutive price hike this year will force patients to attend emergency rooms instead of paying for their regular GP appointments, which will increase the pressures on the public purse.
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00:16 We're looking at a few dollar price hike, but the issue about that has been that the
00:21 patient rebate hasn't kept pace with inflation over a long period of time.
00:25 The issue we know for patients is that there are cost of living pressures, this is another one of them.
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00:56 Government, you know, keeps, tries to keep rebates down in one place, but then spends a lot more money
01:01 having to run emergency departments where seeing a GP might be, you know, 60, 70, 80 dollars,
01:07 but seeing a, going to the emergency department will be, you know, hundreds of dollars.
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