Nola Marino (Forrest, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to oppose the Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2009 [No. 2] and cognate bills that give effect to the measures announced in the 2009-10 budget. These measures provide for means testing of the private health insurance rebate and progressively increase the Medicare levy surcharge for people in my electorate without hospital cover. This legislation is yet another example of Kevin Rudd and the Labor government not being honest with the Australian people, by promising one thing in the lead-up to the election and then doing another. Before the 2007 election, Mr Rudd and the Minister for Health and Ageing—

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