" No doctors in [large rural town] bulk-bill, the ones who do are full" (Y5); "Over the last 12 months two local practices have stopped bulk-billing … It is increasingly harder to find a doctor that bulk-bills and I object to paying a $17 gap for just a prescription and almost no consultation" (M3).
Ned Price, a national security council spokesman, told Reuters the administration had decided to stop bulk collection of domestic telephone call metadata unless Congress explicitly reauthorises it.
US intelligence agencies in June will stop bulk collection of data documenting calls by US telephone subscribers, unless Congress extends a law authorising the spying, US officials said on Monday.
More than 30% of doctors say they will have to stop bulk billing all patients due to the Medicare rebate indexation freeze, a survey by a doctors' group has warned.
The society's vice-president, Dr Con Costa, said "because of the cuts we've seen under this government, many doctors are telling us that they will stop bulk billing all patients".
A second contested provision aims to stop bulk purchases by traffickers by limiting dealers to selling only one gun per customer on a given day, and by requiring that purchasers wait 14 days before picking up guns they order on subsequent days.
So, there's momentum to stop bulk collection of data, along with the other provisions.
This comes on the heels of a House of Representatives version of a Senate reform package to stop bulk collection of records and provide more transparency to members of Congress.
Harry Pohlman, a professor of political science at Dickinson College, said that "the bill will stop bulk collection as defined by the government, but the government has a crazy definition of bulk collection".
As a result of Snowden's disclosures, the NSA has stopped its bulk collection of phone records and limited surveillance of leaders of foreign allies.
The second circuit did not issue an injunction stopping the bulk collection.
