The PR Counsel’s Kristy McSweeney says doctors and surgeons “don’t want to review” the items on the Medicare Benefits Schedule because they are “making a lot of money”.
“Some of those things are completely unnecessary to be funded by Medicare, they’re mostly elective for rich people with bad tennis elbow or bad tennis knee,” Ms McSweeney told Commentator Steve Price.
“Wipe some of those off, go to war with the doctors and you might clog up some of the surgeons’ time and limit the public hospital waiting list – just a bit.”
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