In his latest video message, AMA President Associate Professor Brian Owler says the impasse over the Government's unpopular and ill-informed Medicare changes must be resolved to end uncertainty for doctors and their patients.
The AMA strongly opposes the $5 cut to the Medicare patient rebate, the freeze on Medicare patient rebate indexation until July 2018, and the Government's flawed GP co-payment model. Put together, these policies would have a devastating effect on the provision of quality primary health care services to the Australian people.