That the rate of bulk billing by GPs has fallen by over 15% in Shortland Electorate since 2000 and is now in serious decline;

That this year, 7.7 million fewer GP visits were bulk billed than in 1996;

That the average out-of-pocket cost to see a GP who does not bulk bill has gone up by 51% since 1996.

That public hospitals are now under greater pressure because people are finding it harder to see bulk billing doctors.