The Australian Medical Association has labelled the Medicare Benefits Schedule freeze the single most damaging policy of the Coalition's election campaign and demanded it be phased out as soon as possible.

Recently elected AMA president Dr Michael Gannon also said that he didn't expect the rebate freeze, originally instituted by Labor and then extended by the Coalition to 2019-20, to be taken to the next election.

"Gun possession in the broader community is a risk to public health": AMA president Michael Gannon. Credit:Bohdan Warchomij

"I would be gobsmacked if the government took an ongoing freeze to the next election. They got the scare of their life on health and that was probably the policy which hurt them the most. It makes general practice and a lot of other areas of medical practice potentially unviable," Dr Gannon said, following a meeting with Health Minister Sussan Ley in Canberra.

He said that that the discussion, while not producing any "hard and fast" commitments, "did focus on the fact that health isn't the problem with the budget" and not where budget repair should be sought.