Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I will ask the Minister for Health and Aged Care to add to my remarks, but we are medi-friends; over there, they're medi-frauds. Indeed, you just heard the minister for health talking about the bulk-billing rates—that certainly is prevalent in regional Australia—and the number of telehealth consultations: 60 million telehealth consultations. We are getting on with providing the assistance, the support and the boost in funding to Medicare, as you would expect, and, indeed, to the overall health system. We will always support health, we will always put record funding into health, whereas those opposite just run a Twitter campaign and a social media campaign to drag it down. I'll ask the Minister for Health to add to my remarks.

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