Universal health care still at risk: King

Health Minister Sussan Ley has left the door open for more changes to planned Medicare reforms after dumping a controversial GP rebate.

Ms Ley - who late last year replaced Peter Dutton in the job - has scrapped plans to cut a Medicare rebate for short GP visits, abandoning an estimated $1.3 billion in planned savings. Just before Christmas, the government dumped a $7 co-payment measure for GP visits.

She says the government is still committed to a $5 cut to Medicare rebates for general patients from July 1, and a freeze on Medicare rebate indexation through to mid-2018.

But the minister has promised to consult widely on health reform, and doctors still have concerns about both those measures, particularly the $5 co-payment.

"Look, it is still government policy. That doesn't mean I'm not keen to hear people's views about it," she told the ABC on Friday.

"I will be working with them in how we refine programs the details of the co-payment, but the principle of the co-payment is sound."

Ms Ley, who has begun setting up meetings with key crossbenchers and the Greens, believes her consultation process will result in a solid plan to ensure the viability of Medicare.

"The overarching principle, for me, will be: we protect bulk-billing, we maintain and improve high-quality care, we put that price ceiling into health and we make Medicare sustainable for the long term."

Medicare is not now sustainable, with the levy raising around $10 billion while the cost is $20 billion, she said.

Ms Ley does not believe that simply raising the levy is the answer to solving structural issues in Medicare.

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WASHINGTON A federal judge on Wednesday overturned Labor Department regulations requiring overtime and minimum wage protection for 2 million home health care workers.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon had scrapped part of the rules in December, and Wednesday he completed the process.

In his decision, Leon said that the Labor Departments concerns about wages for home care providers are understandable, but that Congress is the appropriate forum in which to debate a complex issue affecting so many families.

President Barack Obama announced the rules in 2011, avoiding a trip through a hostile Congress that would have been required had the administration chosen the legislative path. Obama presented the rules with fanfare as part of a campaign to boost the economy through executive branch action.

The law Congress wrote in 1974 exempted home health care workers from wage and overtime requirements, Leon wrote, and nothing has happened to change that. Here, yet again, the department is trying to do through regulation what must be done through legislation, he said, adding that the exemption was meant to ensure affordability for the maximum number of families.

Wednesdays ruling scrapped a provision in the Labor Departments rules that had broadened the number of workers eligible for minimum wage and overtime.

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The rule was legally sound and the right policy, the department said, both for those employees, whose demanding work merits these fundamental wage guarantees, and for recipients of services, who deserve a stable and professional workforce allowing them to remain in their homes and communities.

Jodi M. Sturgeon, president of PHI, a group advocating for home care workers, said we are deeply disturbed by Judge Leons decision. After three full years, the regulatory process has run its course, and Americas 2 million home care workers should not have to wait any longer for fair pay.

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