Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley has taken aim at the Commonwealth govermment, firing up after being asked whether the state government was paying GPs to staff their vaccination clinics on the weekend.
Mr Foley pushed back against this question, saying the medical benefits scheme is the responsibility of the federal government.
"Well, at what point does the Commonwealth stop outsourcing its responsibilities to the state? That is my question," he said.
"There is no question that the GP’s payment system is the responsibility of the Commonwealth. In terms of a couple of model arrangements, where we have provided extra vaccines, with that comes extra costs. We are not paying GPs medical benefit schemes arrangements, but we are supporting those GPs both in the extra vaccines, both Pfizer and AstraZeneca, and meeting some of the extra establishment costs that go without.
"But we are not meeting medical benefits arrangements, because at what point does the Victorian government say to the Commonwealth government, you know, quarantining is outsourced to us, responsibility and support for residential aged care, disability aged care, all of which were going to be done by Easter under the Commonwealth’s plan, we are still supporting, because that is the right thing to do.
"We are demonstrating, because someone has to, that the GPs can do more if they have their systems back up and supplied to extra levels."
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