Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer to the report by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and Ageing entitled The blame game. I refer to the advice on health funding commissioned by the Prime Minister from Andrew Podger in 2004 which was shelved without discussion, debate or consultation in 2005. Why is the Prime Minister not even interested in examining the possible long-term solutions to the cost shift and blame shift that currently dog our national health and hospital systems?

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