Medicare backdown

 

Here is an article recently published in Australian Doctor, a nationally circulated newspaper/online publication.  It followed the stunning backdown by the Abbot-Liberal government on 14th January 2015.  

 

However the website requires a free registration/login which will discourage many.  Fear not, I have used Microsoft's underrated Paint to reproduce the article in full. 

 

 

For those with a login:  http://www.australiandoctor.com.au/opinions/guest-view/backdown-on-short-consults-will-give-only-short-re