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As bulk-billing doctors become harder to find, these rural Tasmanians are being priced out of medical care

What do you do when you cannot afford to go to the doctor?

Patients in the Huon Valley in southern Tasmania are grappling with this question after their local clinic stopped bulk-billing.

The sudden loss of bulk-billing was "a big hit for a rural community", said Sam Black, one of the clinic's patients.

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