Steven Ciobo (Moncrieff, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business, the Service Economy and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I am pleased to rise to speak to the Tax Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy Surcharge Thresholds) Bill 2008 because this bill really epitomises the Labor Party’s plans on how it is going to completely or virtually destroy private health insurance in this country. We know that the Labor Party has an ideological bent, and that is its profound belief in public health at the expense of all else. We know—and I notice that the Minister for Health and Ageing is in the chamber—that the Labor Party’s view is that, when it comes to health in Australia, the only system that should be embraced is the public health system. In many respects this particular bill underscores that ideological belief that drives the Labor Party.

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