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- 3. government insurance scheme that provides funding for services and supports to eligible Australians with a disability
- 4. Once an individual’s or family’s patient co-payments for out-of-hospital expenses reach a certain level ($2544.30 in 2024), services covered by Medicare become cheaper for that individual or family for the rest of the calendar year
- 6. practitioner a doctor who has a wide range of skills and looks after the health of most people in the community
- 7. the age at which anyone australian can get their own medicare card
- 8. involves the insertion of very thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your body
- 10. National Youth Mental Health Foundation, which provides mental health services to 12- to 25-year-olds
- 13. difference between the amount a doctor charges for a medical service and what Medicare and any private health insurer pays
- 14. term and is used to describe health professionals outside the medical, dental and nursing professions
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- 1. an additional 1 to 1.5 per cent tax on the income of people without private hospital insurance
- 2. health professional who helps reduce stress and anxiety levels at critical times
- 4. a 2 per cent tax placed on the taxable income of most taxpayers
- 5. Australia’s universal health insurance scheme. aims to provide access to affordable basic healthcare
- 9. medicines are subsidised and consumers must make a patient co-payment
- 11. Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
- 12. Medicare payment as full payment for the service, so there is no cost to the patient.