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

In a decade's time, it will cost us $34 billion. It was $8 billion ten years ago, it is $20 billion today and it will be $34 billion in a decade's time. We have to make our great Medicare system sustainable. That is the first point to make. The second point to make is that there is nothing wrong with having price signals in the system—nothing wrong at all with having price signals in the system. It was in fact the great former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, who first proposed a price signal in the Medicare system. The Labor Party's Assistant Treasurer supports a price signal in our health system. The member for Jagajaga supported a review process.

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