BREAKING: GP Co-payments are going, going, gone

Not agreeing with you doesn't mean that I throw stones, rich 'milked by the system' Colleen (if you drive a car, that is...)... 

To Colleen (and the rest of us, for a good reason...)... and NO Big Mac with Froggy Fries for me, NO, THANK U very much, after reading this: http://www.trueactivist.com/mcdonalds-transparency-campaign-backfires-prepare-to-be-shocked/#.VGsA6kBw0HE.facebook 

Yes, yes.... I've just paid the electricity bill, and I do have to call in a repair man for my 45 year old plumbing. After that I'll be ready for a holiday to relieve my stress and increase my longevity! Oh, hang on a minute.... should I be extending my longevity? Won't that just increase the number of bills I'll have to pay? Heck.. you just can't win!! 

The figures to substantiate my below comment: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-27/oil-prices-continue-to-languish-as-supply-keeps-flowing/5921424 To give you a better idea, when US President G. Bush invaded Iraq, a barrel of crude oil was worth $140, it is now worth $0.72 -roughly half the current price- and WE were paying $1.38 to $1.42 per litre at the pump at the time. So, for God's sake, why would you increase the excise on the CURRENT price of a litre of petrol at the pump when we should pay 90 cents -or less- for a litre of unleaded at that same pump??? 

THANK YOU Michael for your rational reasoning... So obvious, yes... To give you all an idea of how low the low lives who govern us are, take for example, the cost of petrol at the pump: based upon the cost the Woolies and Coles of this world are paying for a barrel of crude oil (the cheapest it has ever been, especially after last night OPEC meeting who want crude oil to be even cheaper...) we should pay less than a dollar for one litre of unleaded petrol, but NO, obnoxious Abbott and his cruel team of bigots have implemented the increase of the fuel excise which had been placed on the back burner!!! How much more rip-off schemes (scams) do YOU want from this dodgy government in total chaos (thanks also to Hockey's calculation in the budget, yes, mr Hockey, iron ore is no longer priced at $100 a ton, far far from it, the basis for your inadequate calculations, so guess what? The 'GP/XRay/BloodTest/Etc'... co-payment could come in 'handy', could save your life, could not it? Hence the fascist approach of FORCING it upon us...)... 

The co-payment was and will remain a silly Idea, Whilst employed,we have through our taxes contributed a Medicare levy, should further funds be needed eg rising population increase in costs, then THAT levy should be increased, This government needs to address honesty and proportionate Taxes raised, be spent on that Item , not into general revenue etc, The most successful economies draw social taxes from resources eg mining narrow the gap between Rich and poor, and have a higher percentage of women in the workforce 

Very dissapointed! Not the coup you think Fifty Up I fear may come back to bite us on the ass 

The GP CO-Payments have not been scrapped. They will be get through and enforced as a Regulation as the Government did with the Excise Fuel in October 

Lies, please wait for the Government to make any announcement and not the Opposition and the Gutter press Joel 

What about the visit to optometrist? Are they scrapping the eye test only every 3 years rule? How can you pick up eye diseases like glaucoma if people hold back until they eligible? For me eyesight is very important especially if your family history means your susceptible. I could afford $7 but $65 for eye test is not as affordable!