Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

so that we can take care of those people. I want to make sure that we can listen to the independent advice that was provided to Prime Minister Rudd and Prime Minister Gillard, when both those prime ministers commissioned independent reports into the health system. In both of those reports, Christine Bennett and Simon Keenan came back to Labor and said that the current health system is not sustainable. Bob Hawke knew it was not sustainable back in 1991, when he introduced the co-payment and we know that for 50 years Labor has supported a co-payment in the medicine scheme to make it is sustainable for our population.

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