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Regional and rural patients call for an increase to travel subsidy scheme as cost of living bites

Warwick McDonald says travelling to Brisbane for treatment has slashed his grocery budget. (ABC Rural: Megan Hughes)

Disability pensioner Warwick McDonald has to choose between groceries or his regular trip from Blackwater in outback Queensland to Brisbane for life-sustaining medical treatment. 

As the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite, for those travelling to access life-saving medical treatments, it's making a tough time tougher.

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