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A middle aged woman with long blonde hair and glasses standing in a waiting room

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"Every month it's a battle to make this place earn more than we spend."
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"They've just made our problem worse, because now we're going to be listening to people whingeing about not being able to get into a doctor, and then people whingeing about not being bulk-billed,"
she said.

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"There are plenty of people doing it tough in metropolitan areas but there's a disincentive for urban GPs to bulk-bill. It shouldn't be a postcode lottery,"
chair of AGPA Dr John Deery said.
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"I can't make them do that … but I'm confident we have designed this in a way that's in their interests to do this as well as obviously in the interest of patients."

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