David Crisafulli has promised to keep patient fees down by abolishing the tax for GPs if it is elected to government next month.
The LNP has promised to keep patient fees down in Queensland by permanently abolishing payroll tax for GPs if elected to government next month.
Labelling the payroll payment a “patient’s tax”, due to increased overheads being passed on to patients, Opposition Leader David Crisafulli said the LNP would legislate to make GPs exempt.“If we don’t do this, Queenslanders will pay more to see a GP in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis,” Crisafulli said.
“Public hospitals and most private hospitals are exempt for a good reason, and that’s because health care needs to be universal, and it needs to be accessible,” she said. “The reality of the matter is, the LNP need to say how much this is going to cost and how they’re going to pay for it,” he said.“They’re promising all of these unfunded promises to Queenslanders, but they can’t say how they are going to pay.
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