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

We are investing in Medicare. We are guaranteeing Medicare. We are putting $1 billion of additional expenditure into removing Labor's indexation freeze. We are putting $2.4 billion into Medicare overall. We are putting $10 billion into the health system, and here is what the AMA said: 'Farewell freeze—government wins back goodwill with positive health measures'. It said:

Lifting the Medicare rebate freeze is overdue, but we welcome it.

Michael Gannon, the RACGP—the College of General Practitioners—said the lifting of the freeze is exactly what the RACGPs' campaign was aiming for. We struck partnerships with the profession. We have delivered reform. We have delivered reinvestment. We have guaranteed Medicare in law. And these agreements will mean better access for patients, lower costs for patients and better access to medicines for patients. That is what people who really believe in Medicare do. At the end of the day, the 'Medifriends' are on this side and the 'Medifrauds' are on that side.

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