AMA President to talk medical insurance in regional areas
AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, will visit marginal Federal electorates in New South Wales to brief doctors, patients and local communities on the impact of the Federal Government's new IBNR tax on patients.
Dr Glasson said the tax will force patients to pay more and more for their health care and take away their doctors. He will call for changes to the whole medical insurance system in Australia.
Dr Glasson said he is visiting regional areas because these are the places where the medical workforce shortages are worst and where patients are already paying more for their health care than other Australians.
Dr Glasson and a delegation from the Federal AMA and AMA NSW will visit the electorates of Eden-Monaro, Gilmore, Paterson, Hunter, Lyne, Page, Richmond and McPherson over the next fortnight.
Doctor protest rallies will be held in:
BEGA
Bega Bowling Club
9.30am - 10.30am
Saturday 11 October
BATEMANS BAY
Batemans Bay Bowling Club
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Saturday 11 October
MAITLAND
Maitland City Bowling Club
10.00am - 12.00pm
Sunday 12 October 2003
PORT MACQUARIE
Port Macquarie Panthers Club
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Sunday 12 October 2003
TWEED HEADS
South Tweed Bowls Club
10.00am - 12.00pm
Saturday 18 October 2003
Dr Glasson will tell the media and members of the public in all these communities how the Federal Government has got it so wrong with the IBNR tax on patients and how the whole medical insurance system in Australia must be changed.
He will explain how the tax will rip medical services out of these towns and make health care more expensive and harder to find for hard working Australians.
CONTACT: John Flannery (02) 6270 5477 / (0419) 494 761
Judith Tokley (02) 6270 5471 / (0408) 824 306