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Families in the electorate of Chifley would be forced to find more than eight million dollars a year to visit their GP, according to figures unveiled by the Federal Opposition.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>\u201cThat is because doctors realise the importance of affordable healthcare for families,\u201d Federal Member of Parliament Ed Husic<\/strong> added.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis GP tax of Tony Abbott\u2019s would, by design, hit families who can afford it least.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI will continue to oppose anything that even looks like forcing my constituents to pay extra to see their GP when they need it. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAll Australian taxpayers should receive the healthcare they deserve, not just the healthcare the Abbott Government reckons it can afford. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt seems Health Minister Peter Dutton only knows how to take money out of Chifley, not put it in.<\/span> \u201cThe Abbott Government would take more than eight million dollars out of Chifley households, as well as the six million dollars we have already lost in the withdrawal of funding for the MRI unit at Mt Druitt Hospital,\u201d Mr Husic concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Effects of the new GP Tax<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n by Catherine King,<\/span><\/strong> Shadow Minister for Health<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n This is only the first step in their attack on Medicare and will open the floodgates for the Liberals to dismantle universal healthcare even further. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Tony Abbott\u2019s new GP Tax will:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>? Make it harder for families to see their GP<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n ? Increase pressure on family budgets<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n ? Put additional stress on hospital emergency wards and public <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>hospitals<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span>Families deserve access to the healthcare they need, not just the healthcare they can afford.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Together we will always fight for Medicare. We won\u2019t let Tony Abbott rip apart Medicare piece by piece.<\/span>Labor\u00a0is proudly the party of Medicare, we increased\u00a0bulk-billing to the highest rates ever, and we will continue to protect Australia\u2019s universal healthcare system. Families in the electorate of Chifley would be forced to find more than eight million dollars a year to visit their GP, according to figures unveiled by the Federal Opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,33,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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