Fed: GP shortage the key to low bulk-billing rate, inquiry told

AAP General News (Australia)
01-19-2004
Fed: GP shortage the key to low bulk-billing rate, inquiry told

Health academics say a shortage of doctors is the main cause of falling bulk-billing rates.

Canberra University health economist IAN MCAULEY has told a Senate committee that increasing
costs aren't the main reason for falling rates of bulk-billing.

Mr MCAULEY says rate of bulk-billing is falling as the number of doctors is falling.

JANE HALL, from the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, says …