Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing and is about health, so it would be good if he could answer it. I refer the minister to the repeated statements of the Minister for Finance and Administration that the sale of Medibank Private will require changing its status from not-for-profit to for-profit. Is it not the case that the minister’s own department and the health insurance regulatory agency, which falls in his portfolio, will determine this change in status? Minister, exactly what health benefit will arise for Medibank Private members from changing Medibank Private to a for-profit fund?

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