Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Health Administration) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Now that the minister has read out his QTB, perhaps he can try and answer the question—that is, how many Australians will lose the benefit of the private health insurance rebate altogether and, as such, face an automatic 42 per cent increase in the cost of their private health insurance as a direct result of the Rudd government’s broken promise on private health insurance rebates?