Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

We did. It was budgeted for $90 million per annum and it spend $90 million a month—12 times what you budgeted for! Seriously, you people should not be in charge of lunch money. You cannot count. We brought in something that has actually helped two million young Australians—making sure kids get good access to dental care. Those opposite want to cut it; they want to remove it. Why do they hate kids and good teeth? Every single medical report supports exactly what happened: our dental scheme means that kids get better teeth and better health outcomes. These are the things that matter to people.

Now those opposite want to off-load Medicare overseas. They want to have your patient records sent overseas and not processed here in Australia. For a government that is supposed to talk about jobs, so far all we have learnt is that they want to send jobs to Spain, they want to send jobs from the Australian Taxation Office to the Philippines, and now they want to offshore Medicare. It is an absolute joke that the government could get worse than the Tony Abbott government, but they have. They have, because every one of those members opposite is an empty vessel that does not support health, does not support universal health care and has never actually backed it. From the day Medibank was brought in to today, they have had this— (Time expired)

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