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  1. Your Medicare rebate is worth less every year. Government MBS indexation has always been less than increases in the cost of providing quality medical care. Your Medicare rebate has been cut and will not change for more than 6 years. The graph shows how little your Medicare rebate will be worth in 2020.
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  3. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-07/medicare-rebate-changes-and...

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