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That "can" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, less and less GPs are bulk-billed. We're still better out-of-sight than the US, but under the last govt we started sliding towards privatisation.

Bulk billing for GP visits seems to be getting rarer though, I looked on Healthengine and there's way less GPs doing bulk billing in my capital city. My last GP visit was ~$50 after medicare.

It always amazes me how some places worked out socialised health care and other places really, really didn't.

You would expect developed nations to all land within a few percentile of each other on major issues but for whatever reason the gap is enormous here.

It can cost you $0. There is a difference in what you wrote.

That's not even what they said. The very next sentence detailed the personal cost of Medicare.