Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. As honourable members know, our budget is delivering fairness, opportunity and security for all Australians. We are delivering on our promises and not saying one thing but doing another. We are guaranteeing Medicare through a new, dedicated Medicare Guarantee Fund, we are adding more lifesaving drugs to the PBS and we are overseeing record levels of bulk-billing. We want to ensure that Medicare is guaranteed and quarantined from cheap political scares and stunts such as we have seen from the Labor Party. They are long on rhetoric and short on delivery. We have listed more drugs, nearly four times as many drugs, on the PBS as they did in their time in office—new, life-saving drugs delivering, saving lives, making Australians well. That is what we have been doing with the PBS. Labor rationed it.

Labor talk about the National Disability Insurance Scheme. At first they said it was fully funded.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

They are still saying that.

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