Bulk billing and the GP, mental health, dental and the PBS, prevention, and what is measured — five parties, from platforms, budget papers and Medicare data, with the check date on the table. The Sovereign Australia column restates the published policy: bulk billing restored through rebates set at 95 per cent of the AMA fee in the regions and 85 metro, obesity fixed at source through education, and ten free mental-health sessions.
Checked 27 August 2026. Sources: party platforms and election commitments; the November 2025 bulk-billing expansion and Medicare data to early 2026; the Coalition’s matched $9 billion commitment; the Greens’ dental-into-Medicare policy; One Nation’s published statements; Sovereign Australia’s published health policy and platform Part 7. “No policy published” means none found on the public record, not indifference. One Nation’s positions are drawn from speeches and Senate interventions rather than a published platform. This table states each party’s position, not this party’s characterisation of it.
| Issue | Sovereign Australia | Labor | Coalition | Greens | One Nation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulk billing and the GP Federal |
Rebates restored to 95 per cent of the AMA fee in regional and rural Australia, 85 metro, set annually by an independent body of clinicians — bulk billing made financially viable, a $0 GP visit from day one. | The $8.5 billion expansion: bulk-billing incentives extended to all patients from 1 November 2025, targeting nine in ten GP visits bulk billed by 2030. The largest quarterly bulk-billing increase outside COVID was recorded in early 2026. | Matched the $8.5 billion dollar-for-dollar at the 2025 election — a $9 billion Medicare investment including mental health funding. | Free GP visits — fully bulk-billed general practice. | Lift Medicare rebates so seeing a doctor costs less. |
| Mental health Federal |
Ten sessions of psychological therapy a year at zero gap through Medicare, 200 additional public psychiatry positions in the first term, and community mental health centres in every Green Zone. | Halved the Better Access psychology sessions from twenty to ten from 2023; funds Medicare Mental Health Centres. | $500 million committed to restore the Medicare mental health sessions cut in half. | Free mental healthcare brought fully into Medicare. | No detailed mental health policy published. |
| Dental and the PBS Federal |
Dental care brought into Medicare. The PBS preserved as a sovereign national asset — trade agreements never permitted to threaten its pricing power, new medicines listed within statutory timelines. | PBS co-payment cut — cheaper scripts from January 2026; dental not covered. | Matched the cheaper-medicines commitment; dental not covered. | Dental into Medicare — the party’s signature health policy. | No published position on dental or the PBS. |
| Prevention and obesity Federal |
Obesity fixed at source: practical nutrition taught from Year 1, junk-food advertising to children banned across all platforms, the government advertising budget inverted to proactive health education, and additives banned overseas suspended here. | No prevention-first program of this kind published; the public health record centres on vaping and tobacco enforcement. | No prevention-first program published. | Supports junk-food advertising restrictions. | No prevention program published. |
| What is measured Federal |
Standing People’s Portal metrics every government is judged against: the bulk-billing rate, ED wait times, mental health bed availability, the male suicide rate, and life expectancy by postcode. | Departmental and AIHW reporting; no standing public metric committed. | No measurement commitment published. | No measurement commitment published. | No measurement commitment published. |
Every Sovereign Australia cell restates the published policy — Health & Medicare and Part 7 of the platform. Two convergences are stated plainly: on dental into Medicare this party and the Greens point the same way, and on restoring the halved mental-health sessions the Coalition’s commitment and this party’s ten-session policy address the same cut. The differences are the independent rebate-setting body, the prevention-first obesity program, and the standing Portal metrics.