‘Sausage factory’: Perth GPs say Labor’s bulk billing promise incentivises quick

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says Labor’s headline election promise to expand bulk-billing has “fallen apart already” with doctors rejecting the chance to sign up to the scheme.

Several Perth GPs have criticised the scheme, saying it created what amounted to a production line of shortened consultations.

More than a fortnight into the roll out of Anthony Albanese’s $8.5 billion Medicare plan clinics across Perth have resisted incentives to switch to fully bulk-billing.

“Unfortunately, this bulk-billing policy has fallen apart already because what we see is families saying I cannot find a bulk-billing doctor,” Ms Ley said on Monday.

She criticised it as “outrageous” that parents were having to “choose which child visits a doctor on a particular week” because they couldn’t afford doctor f