Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

I would say that that is a question that the senator should ask Dr Kamerman about the way he runs his practice. This government is absolutely committed to ensuring that we not only protect people who are vulnerable, including concession card holders and those under 16 but that we also make the system sustainable. Perhaps those on the other side have not been listening but, as we have very clearly indicated, we will be working with doctors, with communities, with people from right across the sector—as indeed I have been with the Rural Doctors Association—to make sure we get the right things in place to protect not only those vulnerable people but to ensure that we have a strong and sustainable health care system in this country that the Australian people deserve and that the previous Labor government did not deliver.