Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yet again, we are debating the government's abject failure in the area of health and aged care. It has a unique approach to health care—cut the services and charge more. Its approach to health care is to make Australians pay for everything that they get, whilst at the same time reducing those services. The Turnbull-Abbott government has been an abject failure in the area of health. We have had one health minister who was described as the worst heath minister in Australia's history, and now we have another health minister who is really making a hash of it. This government's approach to health care is all about efficiencies. It cuts but it does not, at any time, put in place any new services.

An MBS review? Yes when we were in government we undertook reviews. We support MBS reviews, but what you do is replace old technologies with new technologies and not put the money back into the budget bottom line. This government has one consistent approach to health, and that is to attack it.

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