Abbott digs in over $7 GP tax for pensioners

OK, so the AMA puts out a suggestion to the gov as a possible compromise on the senate impasse, suggesting that pensioners and children should be exempt. Sounds like sort of a step in the right direction but really there shouldn't be a doctors tax at all that undermines the universality of Medicare, but Abbott won't even give on that. He's rejected the idea, saying that it's fair that we pensioners should pay it. Yes, in Abbott's old bitter catholic white man moral world, he thinks it's fair to charge pensioners for a service they need with money they haven't got. And he actually defends this position thus:

Speaking to reporters in Melbourne on Thursday, Mr Abbott said pensioners already paid about $7 for prescriptions subsidised by the government under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. 

"I don't think it's unreasonable for a comparable amount to be paid for visits to the GP," he said. Read more

Oh really? This fuckwit needs brain surgery. Just where the fuck am I supposed to get this $7 that some rich guy somewhere has decided that it's not "unreasonable" for me to pay? And who says I can afford even the $6 prescription fee anyway? At the moment we're using the credit card to eat.

What another portrayal of this gov not having the faintest idea of what's happening in the real world. They actually think that I have enough money to pay this, at the same time they're wanting to slowly starve me over time with indexation? Yet he says this is reasonable?