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@billy_pinker @QLDCountryGP @AliFranceMP Never mind these consults need 30-40min to fill the requirements so there is no extra 20min. Your maths also doesn't factor in service fees, or the no annual or sick leave, super etc that the OP added into his figure. Or the avg 11hrs/wk unpaid for paperwork/r results etc.

@QLDCountryGP @AliFranceMP And the left over 20min allows a $100 charge... 38 x 100 x 52 = 198k on top of 235k... $433k Income...???

2 of those appointments per hour, 38 hours per week, 48 weeks per year, would put a GP on around $235k/year including super, holidays and sick leave... ...so less than an MP like @AliFranceMP. GPs have 10 years medical training. What do MPs have again?

@griffo762014 Any thoughts regarding how these numbers reflect the actual levels in the community? As a Metro GP, the high use of Multi-RATs by my patients mean I do far less diagnosis confirmation via formal swabs. There is certainly alot of flu, but very few of my pts would be reported cases

Another increase in flu cases and hospitalisations in Queensland.

@yeahthegirls_ @HeatherStroud @katea76 In private billing, the Dr charges you their fee eg: $100 & the government, via Medicare, reimburses you for the $ value it has allocated for the service provided. Medicare doesn't subsidise the Dr, it reimburses you. It's your rebate. Seems nit picky, but it IS different.

@HeatherStroud @katea76 Sir, are you serious? Doctors still charge for their time, which is paid to them through Medicare (taxpayers). They charge approximately $80-$100 for a fifteen minute appointment. The government doesn't subside haircuts and manicures...crazy, right?

@Symonds_Yat @partridge96209 @UKGastroDr Not enough. It's a big country with an aging population and increasing workforce shortage.

@KMBoof @partridge96209 @UKGastroDr Don't you train doctors in Australia?

Hundreds of resident Doctor colleagues are going to be unemployed this month. This is a catastrophic failure of workforce planning by UK Govts & many senior clinicians who have had a role/ influence in workforce planning. As a profession - we should all be throughly ashamed.

@partridge96209 @UKGastroDr We have interviewed and hired at least a dozen, probably more, for our Aussie hospital in the last 6 months. Excluding rotational RMOs our ED probanly has more medical staff from the UK than anywhere else (including locally)

@UKGastroDr It's shocking. How many will end up emigrating?

@AronieDawn2 @SenatorCash They are not increasing the rebate, they are increasing/expanding the BBing incentive which is different and means it's all or none IE it won't reduce gap $ if your GP doesn't BB. The AMA fee is an estimation of costs to provide the service, it goes up as business costs go up.

@SenatorCash At least Labor are increasing the Medicare rebate. Libs didn’t in 10 years. The thing about rebates is that they can’t and never will catch up with the AMA fee for GP consultations. Can anyone stop the AMA from increasing their fees?

When you see your GP, does Anthony Albanese’s promise hold up, or are you still reaching for your credit card?

@carl_claw @PhoebeCakes17 @lporiginalg The solution for my family was me continuing to work as a Dr and my husband becoming the stay at home dad/ part time working parent when the kids where young.

Just ONE WEEK until @healthgovau, @AlboMP and @Mark_Butler_MP scrap the current #Medicare chronic disease items and apparently start the new ones... ...and we STILL don't have the item descriptors so we can continue caring for patients. Is this incompetence or intentional?

@brianstandlick @cyberpunkdingo @KosSamaras It would also be interesting what the Private health insurers would do. PHI usually won't p for any outpatient care that attracts a Medicare rebate, & if it is typical Medicare, then the rebate would be well below the cost for the service so people will potentially be more OOP?

@brianstandlick @cyberpunkdingo @KosSamaras My understanding (from discussions with my practice-owning dentist neighbour) is that the ADA have seen what the federal gov (both major parties) did to GPs with screwing down Medicare rebates and don't want anything to do with that.

Over the past two years, a growing number of former Greens supporters began to see the Greens not as a political party, but as a movement fuelling civil unrest and disruption. The party clearly recognised this too late after a string of poor results at state, territory, and local government elections. By the time they adjusted course, the damage was done. Their leader is now gone. I never imagined that I would see the Greens lose Melbourne in my lifetime.

@JoshButler I found out my phone was automatically dumped them in spam (where they belong) without notifying me. Brilliant.

Haven't received even a single text from Clive Palmer and the Trumpet yet, which at this point honestly feels like an insult

@_sn_n @SkylerforNY Pretty sure there were comments from MAGAs after our last Federal election, celebrating that our 'Liberal Party' had lost. Not realising that 'the Liberals' are the more conservative of Australia's major parties.

@allaroundanne @Noellenarwhal Female Dr here. Met my now (non med) husband at 17. He supported me through med school & when we had kids he became a stay at home dad. Over the years we have flicked back and forth & now the kids are older we work & earn about the same. It's whatever makes the team work best.

I was in the first wave of women who can "do everything!"- what a crock of crap. It is SO hard to both raise a family, work full time ( often more than FT as a doc) and have a life. It is nice we have an option other than housewife, teacher or nurse- the most common female occupations in the first half of the 20th century. I remember quite well the arguments that giving spots to women in med school is "wasting" a spot as we will take time off when pregnant and will most likely work part time. And indeed that is what a lot of women docs in my generation did as we discovered having it all will run you down rather quickly. It appears that the millennial generation ( my kids) have decided that having it all was too much and many women now are just choosing a career alone. I think that is sad, but a reflection on how our country doesn't really value families.

In North America we have had ONE generation of women having full freedom and equal rights. We are now seeing a rise in angry men who are whining about being left behind, becoming more conservative, and talking about "the male loneliness epidemic". It's not a coincidence

Our story on the front page A cynical vote grab calling healthcare free. Bulk billing everyone = a promise that can’t be fulfilled We need reform not cheap political stunts Patients have complex needs which quick medicine =/= fix @RACGPPresident @ama_media @amapresident

@stephenjduckett @ConversationEDU I am booked out weeks ahead with patients happy to pay gaps for quality care. But, it's frustrating that those who can't afford this, and probably need it more, are stuck with fast throughput, ad-hoc, 6min medicine, of which Medicare provides better rebates/hr.

@stephenjduckett @ConversationEDU I'm a GP who mainly does complex chronic disease & mental health care. I have a foot out the door & will likely leave GP soon. I love GP & what we should/could be, but are not because Medicare financially disincentives me for providing care that keeps my pts out of hospital.

My thoughts: More bulk billing is fine. But what the health system really needs this election is genuine reform theconversation.com/more-bulk-bill… via @ConversationEDU

@AlboMP If you (or the LNP) were increasing the MBS rebates, then at least everyone's gap payments would be smaller. Instead the offer is 'all or none' IE: if GPs drop their consult fee by $60, they get a BB incentive of $30. Why would GPs accept that? Simple - they won't.

When it comes to seeing the GP, all you should need is your Medicare card, not your credit card.

@QLDCountryGP @Medicalrepublic @hollythepayne I have never billed one of these despite absolutely covering the criteria multiple times a day. It is just basic routine care. Why on earth does it need a different item number when it rebates the same as a C anyway?

@Medicalrepublic @hollythepayne All the useful item numbers that have been scrapped or cut over the last decade....and they keep this shit. Complete clown show.

Heart Health Checks saved from the chopping block again, by @hollythepayne. MBS items 699 and 177 have been given another three years. medicalrepublic.com.au/heart-health-c… #medtwitter

@_nomadic_soul Hubby & I have swapped breadwinner & stay at home/ primary parent responsibilities multiple times during our marriage due, to changes in work circumstances. Currently 50:50 in earnings, parenting and home duties. Works well, we adapt as needed with minimal handover required.

@joegarra61 @RACGPPresident @amavictoria We will not be changing our billing practices.

The bulk billing incentive is less than what most clinics charge out of pocket. I wonder how many clinics can afford this. @RACGPPresident @amavictoria If the govt was serious it would increase the rebate which would decrease costs for patients.