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

And, importantly, out of this report we recognise that the Medicare expenditure in the year the honourable member referred to grew by 4.1 per cent, and even with the changes announced in this budget to make spending sustainable on Medicare we projected that 18.6 per cent growth over the next four years will take place in Medicare and that over the next decade the MBS will grow by almost 80 per cent. We have put in place a method by which we will make Medicare sustainable, we will defend Medicare, we will make it stronger and we will stop Labor from wrecking the health system in this country.

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