Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Here we go with more of the exaggerations, more of the inaccurate statements—everything the member for Wentworth was talking about—and these inaccurate characterisations of the impact of a carbon price. The Commonwealth Treasury and the Department of Health and Ageing estimate that the impact of the carbon price will be 0.3 per cent on hospital costs. This is the equivalent of only one cent for every $3 spent on hospitals. In addition to that, there is indexation of hospital funding to the states that is very generous. The problem here at the moment is that the state governments are withdrawing money from public hospitals. I have seen it at Prince Charles Hospital in my electorate.

Mr Dutton interjecting—

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