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Anam Bilgrami, Senior Research Fellow, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University

One Nation says photo ID will help stop Medicare ‘rorts’. Here’s why that’s wrong

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says Medicare is being “rorted” by up to A$3 billion a year, and that “a lot of this could be prevented” by requiring photo ID on Medicare cards.

But where did this $3 billion figure come from? And would putting photos on Medicare cards really help claw back billions a year in taxpayer dollars?

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