MRI licences, page-24

Should be good for CAJ given we have high numbers of medicare-only funded patients...

Shorten unveils what he says is “the most significant investment in Medicare in a generation”, a $2.3 billion “Medicare cancer plan”.

Under the policy, there will be $600m towards eliminating costs for diagnostic imaging.

“Over four years this will mean six million free cancer scans funded by Medicare: CT scans, PET scans, mammograms, x rays and ultrasounds, reducing the out-of-pocket costs for cancer patients from hundreds of dollars to zero,” he says. “This will apply to MRIs too.”

There will also be $433m provided to cover cancer specialists under bulk billing.