To the Honourable Speaker and members of the House of Representatives assembled in parliament:

We the undersigned request the Government open a Medicare Easy Claim Agency for the Toukley area.

Local doctors have ceased to bulkbill patients and many people simply cannot afford to pay the doctor and then wait (possibly days) for their Medicare refund. They often depend on their refund to buy the necessities of life—sometimes even the medicine prescribed by the doctor.

Lake Haven is the nearest Medicare office and for those without private transport or money it is unreachable. The majority of the population in Toukley are elderly and the installation of a Medicare Easy Claim Agency in the Toukley Area would be very beneficial to the local community.

Your petitioners therefore respectfully request that the House do everything in their power to ensure that the Toukley area is given a Medicare Easy Claim Agency as a matter of urgency.