Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Let's talk about the GP co-payment. The GP co-payment is a sensible measure from this government to try to make Medicare sustainable for the long term. How can members opposite insist that it is right to have a modest co-payment for the PBS and it is somehow wrong to have a modest co-payment for Medicare? It just does not add up.

Ms Macklin interjecting—

The member for Jagajaga likes to interject. Let me quote from the National Health Strategy.

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