Kerry Bartlett (Macquarie, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

What a wonderful transformation. Here we have the Labor Party, which in the past has never really cared about private health insurance, now suddenly profoundly concerned about the future of Medibank Private. The party that was very happy, when it was in government, to see the demise of private health insurance is now supposedly its greatest champion. In the 13 years that Labor was in office, we saw a steady decline in the membership of private health insurance. Here we have again the opposition wanting to shut down the debate on the Medibank Private Sale Bill 2006.

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