Abbott scraps $7 co-payment plan
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The federal government has bowed to pressure and announced it's scrapping plans for a $7 dollar GP co-payment and replacing it with a new scheme.The new scheme includes the retention of bulk-billing for pensioners, people in nursing homes and children under 16 and allows GPs to charge a discretionary fee of $5 for everyone else. Our presenter Maheswaran Prabaharan reports in Tamil a feature prepared by Amanda Cavill for SBS News.
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