House debates

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Matters of Public Importance

Medicare

3:21 pm

Photo of Greg HuntGreg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

The shadow minister quoted the fact that I make the point that Medicare funding goes up each year, every year, from $22 billion to $23 billion to $24 billion to $25 billion. Their argument has been that that we are cutting Medicare; we are not. It is false; it is untrue; it is incorrect. Then they get all upset about the fact that Medicare funding is actually going up. They also get upset about the fact that bulk-billing is actually going up. We were asked about the trajectory—

Mr Champion interjecting

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