Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, we have a couple of people from New South Wales. If you have an emergency in New South Wales, the only private hospitals that have emergency departments are in the middle of Sydney. If you have an emergency and you are not allowed, as a privately insured person, to go to a public hospital and you are in the Minister for Ageing’s electorate, do you expect people to travel to Sydney to get their public hospital services? If you are in Dobell or Shortland, do you expect that privately insured constituents in those electorates should be travelling down to Sydney to get their emergency department treatment?

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