‘All 27 million Australians’: Albanese pledges to ‘triple’ Medicare incentive to prevent gap fees

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claims Labor will again “triple the incentive” for doctors to not charge a Medicare gap fee to “all 27 million Australians”.

“This is one of my government’s priorities, and what we did in last year’s budget was we tripled the bulk-billing incentive for doctors … for concession card holders … that resulted in a 90 per cent rate of bulk-billing,” Mr Albanese said.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton faced off in the first debate of the federal election campaign in the Sky News/Daily Telegraph People’s Forum.