The number of foreign doctors who can stay in Australia will be significantly reduced as fees for the Medicare increase and professional standards fall.
The number of imported family doctors will drop by more than 1000-doctors trained overseas will have to leave Australia in a sweeping overhaul of visas.
It is reported that the federal government has asked the Ministry of the Interior to change the visas of overseas-trained doctors in order to implement the new changes.
Surging fees charged by overseas-trained doctors to the Medicare have prompted the authorities to decide to reduce their numbers, it is reported.
The average transfer fee charged by overseas trainee doctors tripled in three years, reaching 486398 yuan in 2010.
A Department of Health analysis also expressed concern that the availability of doctors in Australia did not match the actual needs of patients.
According to the Australian newspaper, the government will cut fees by more than four hundred thousand yuan a year for a four-year period starting in January by reducing the number of visas granted to family doctors working in the metropolitan area.
Nearly 3/4 of overseas doctors work in urban primary health care institutions, according to a briefing released by the Ministry of Health.
The new government plan proposed in the budget will seek to replace foreign doctors in urban areas with Australian medical graduates from rural areas.
But Labour health spokesman Catherine King (Catherine King) has asked the Morrison government to justify the cuts-which would allow the government to cut costs by $415 million.
"this means there will be 11 million fewer medical services for Australians," she said.
According to the new data, per capita Medicare services rose to 16.8 percent in 2017.
