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Bulk billing incentive helps ‘vulnerable people' with GP costs

Royal Australian College of GPs Vice President Dr Bruce Willett says the federal budget’s bulk billing incentive is “very welcome” because it helps people who need it the most. “The Medicare rebates have been eroded dramatically over the last couple of decades by both sides of politics, so it’s essentially worth half of what it was before,” Mr Willett told Sky News Australia. “The bulk billing incentive allows GPs to bulk bill people, essentially vulnerable patients and under 16-year-olds. “It’s an additional payment and that’s what’s been increased, so it’s not a tripling of the rebate, it’s a tripling of this top-up payment but very welcome because it’s directed to the people who need it the most.”