Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

They deserve that certainty. And we know that it is not fully funded from the Labor Party themselves. Julia Gillard herself said, on 15 May 2013, that increasing the Medicare levy would erase approximately 55 per cent of the total cost of the funding. She said on 1 May:

The amount raised from the additional Medicare levy will not fund the full cost of disability care when it's in full operation.

Indeed, the member for Jagajaga said that 40 per cent, or $5.4 billion, would need to be found and 'we'll need to find that in our budget'.

Mr Dreyfus interjecting—

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