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

Let me put a very simple proposition: Labor hates private health insurance. We love private health insurance. This idea that they are proposing is not government policy, will not be government policy and will never be government policy under the coalition.

Do you know what? When I first heard about this, when we first discussed it in February, on the first day that I discussed this with the department I took it off, rejected it from the COAG agenda and said: 'No, thank you. There's a reason we're not doing it. It sounds like Labor policy.' And do you know what? It is Labor policy. Here is what we saw on the front—

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