LABOR will oppose the government’s changes to bulk-billing aimed at saving $650 million over four years.
THE mid-year budget update released on Tuesday unveiled a plan to remove bulk-billing incentives for pathology services and reduce incentives for magnetic resonance imaging services.
“It is wrong and Labor will oppose the idea that Malcolm Turnbull’s Liberals have that the only way that Australia can get ahead is by attacking Medicare,” Mr Shorten told reporters in Sydney on Wednesday.