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

But, if it is right and proper for the member for Ballarat to insist on people with chronic illness paying a modest co-payment on their PBS medicines, why isn't it right and proper for us to say that, for some early visits, there should be a modest co-payment for visits to the doctor?

The Labor Party under Bob Hawke introduced a co-payment. When the member for Jagajaga was the health adviser to the relevant minister the Labor Party introduced a Medicare co-payment. The Labor Party's shadow Assistant Treasurer thinks a co-payment makes sense, and if they want to repudiate his statements, they had better repudiate him and tell him that he cannot sit on their front bench—(Time expired)

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