“GP bulk-billing is up nearly 4 per cent from 82.2 per cent under Labor to a record 86.1 per cent under the Coalition Government — meaning that more patients are seeing their local GP without having to pay out-of-pocket costs.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Hunt's claim is half-baked. He has the numbers right, but it does not necessarily follow that an increase in bulk-billing means fewer patients face out-of-pocket costs when seeing their GP. Department of Health statistics confirm that the bulk-billing rate has risen almost 4 percentage points since 2013 to a record high of 86.1 per cent. However, the bulk-billing rate measures the proportion of services that are being bulk-billed, and not the percentage of patients who are being bulk-bille...
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In short
Greg Hunt (Minister for Health) made this claim around 25 March 2019. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 9 April 2019, 15 days later. Its rating was “Half-baked”.
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