Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

What I can say about the health industry is that if you look at what the Rudd government is doing you see that it is delivering on its promises. It is building a modern health system for modern Australia. It is rebuilding the health system after 11 long years of neglect by the coalition government. We are delivering on our agenda of fundamental reform in health, of keeping people well and out of hospital. We are pursuing a dual-track approach to reform which is building for the future, delivering for today, ensuring working families can get the health care they need when and where they need it and working with the states and territories to end the blame game and deliver much needed reform. That is what the Rudd—