"As Doctors we warn that the new Federal Minister for Health Ms Anne Rusten has previously supported forcing Australians to pay the Abbott copayment to see a doctor and has refused today on the ABC AM program to rule out ever introducing a Medicare copayment"said Dr Con Costa Vice President of the Australian Doctors Reform Society
""It would be a disaster for low income families and the chronically ill if after the election Anne Ruston was the Minister for Health and changed Medicare by reintroducing the Abbott Medicare copayment forcing every australian to have to worry if they could afford to go to the GP."said Dr Robert Marr GP and Vice president of the Australian Doctors Reform Society
"A Medicare copayment would not save money because many people could not afford to attend the doctor for preventive health care and would be forced to overload free public hospital emergency departments"'Said Dr Con Costa
"The Prime Minister Mr Morrison and Ms Ruston must absolutely guarantee before the election that if reelcted a Liberal National government will not reintroduce an Abbott style Medicare copayment that would force all Australians to have to pay to see a doctor"said Dr Con Costa
