Summary Of The Health Budget Changes In The Budget. You Are Stuck With A myHR!

Budget Outcome - 2017-18 HEALTH The government is set to fully fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme beyond 2019 in Tuesday's Budget. The Australian reports the NDIS funding will be the centrepiece social policy, set to be revealed when the government outlines its spending plans tonight. Medicine prices will fall and Medicare rebates for doctor's visits will rise. Patients will be pushed onto generic versions of their medicine to save the government money. The price of X-rays and scans could rise with the government poised to abandon an election pledge to index the Medicare rebates for these services. And high income earners - singles earning over $90,000 and families on over $180,000- may have to brace for an increase in their Medicare Levy. The Medicare rebate for bulk billed GP visits will rise for concession patients from July this year and from July 2018 for general patients; Medicare Rebat es for specialist procedures won't be indexed until 2019. Every... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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