Medicare News Blog

Labor’s plan to subsidise dental care for teenagers will undermine the fundamental Medicare principle of providing health care for everyone, Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says.

THE 250,000 Australians to benefit from new Medicare rebates for dental care may have less than three weeks to take advantage of them.

The Government committed almost $200million to help autistic children yesterday with a range of measures for parents, new Medicare funding and the promise of hundreds of playgroups across the country.

A DOCTORS’ group has attacked federal Labor for a reported plan to reverse its opposition on the Medicare safety net.

Labor will scrap Medicare-funded dental care for people with a chronic illness if it wins government, and use the money to fund its own public dental health plan.