Email for Parliamentarians

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Please protect women's access to specialist care

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Dear [MP's name],

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I am writing as one of your constituents in [electorate name].

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[Add one or two sentences about your own experience. For example: why you chose a private specialist, what continuity of care meant to you, how a specialist helped you or someone you love.]

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I understand Parliament is currently looking at the cost and availability of specialist care. Medicare rebates for women's specialist care, from gynaecology to pregnancy, have fallen far behind the real cost of providing it.

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For example, Medicare currently values 28 weeks of around-the-clock specialist pregnancy care at about $2.28 a day. That is less than half the price of a cup of coffee.

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When women cannot afford private specialist care for gynaecology, they join public waiting lists that already take years before getting the necessary care.

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I am asking you to make sure that healthcare policy in Australia protects women's ability to choose the specialist care they trust at every stage of life and that Medicare properly values that care.

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I would be grateful if you could let me know your position and raise this issue with the Minister for Health.

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Yours sincerely,

[Full name] [Address including postcode] [Email or phone number]