9 April 2019 - Bill Shorten’s $2.3 billion cancer treatment plan will fail to deliver his promise of eliminating significant out-of-pocket costs for many private ­patients, with leading oncologists warning yesterday they could not guarantee they would bulk-bill their services.

The ALP’s cancer package — a key plank of the Opposition Leader’s election campaign unveiled in his budget-reply speech — was also labelled by a leading oncologist as “un-Australian” because it overlooked patients with other diseases such as heart disease, the top cause of death in Australia.

Another said free cancer treatment was “unachievable’’ in both the public and private systems.

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