Labor has delivered its first election promise by announcing it will remove the freeze on medicare rebates for GP visits.
The medicare rebate for a standard GP consultation is currently frozen at $37.05.
The freeze was first started by the then Labor government in 2013, before being extended by the Abbott and Turnbull governments.
In this year's budget it was extended again until 2020.
Doctors' groups have been campaigning against the freeze and asking patients to lobby their MPs to complain. They say if it remains, it will force them away from being able to offer bulk billing of their services.
The government says that Labor can't afford to fund the promise.
Michael Cooney is a Labor strategist and executive director of the party's think tank the Chifley Research Centre.
He told SBS that Labor is trying to focus on policy in the campaign and to promote the differences in style between Bill Shorten and Malcolm Turnbull.
"This isn't just about health services. What this does is really deliver hip-pocket benefits to middle class people as well," Mr Cooney said.
