We are back to the Medicare card!

Sussan Ley asks Anthony Albanese:

The Prime Minister has said on at least 71 occasions that it is free to see a GP and all you need is your Medicare card, not your credit card. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has contradicted the Prime Minister with data showing Australians paid more than $166 million in out-of-pocket costs to see a GP in the month of May alone. What is the Prime Minister say things he knows are not true?

Albanese is straight to his pocket for his Medicare card.

We are strengthening Medicare, we are cementing quality bulk billed healthcare at its heart. Something we are absolutely committed to and something I announced in the electorate of bus with the $8.5 billion commitment that before I finished speaking the Coalition then packed in. That position. Back in 2023 in the budget we tripled the bulk billing incentive for pensioners and concession cardholders.

Those 11 million Australians go to the GP they are bulk billed 90% of the time. It is our plan for Medicare in action and it is working. That is why we took that principle and then made a decision to extend to all 26 million Australians for the very first time stop lifting bulk billing rates for every patient to 90% by 2030. This is an important part of the reform agenda where Labor not only created Medicare but we will always work to strengthen it. I know it annoys those opposite to see this little bit of green and gold. Green and gold the same colour…

There is a point of order which is not a point of order and then more of the same from yesterday from Albanese. Which, after the election campaign, you should all know by rote now.