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Health
the Specialist Reporting Team's Penny Timms and Mary Lloyd

Will the federal budget's bulk-billing incentives make it easier to see a doctor? For some patients, maybe

The government hopes the extra payments will encourage GPs to go back to bulk-billing their vulnerable patients. (Unsplash: CDC, File photo)

It's the centrepiece of last night's federal budget, designed to reduce the cost of living for some of the nation's most vulnerable people.

Doctors hope it will also help to unclog hospital emergency departments.

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