House debates

Thursday, 4 June 2009

Matters of Public Importance

Private Health Insurance

3:57 pm

Photo of Nicola RoxonNicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

It is your suggestion, Shadow Minister. The reason it is your suggestion is that you think that private patients should not go to public hospitals. You are on the record having said it. The Leader of the Opposition is on the record having dreamed his utopian dream that everyone should have private health insurance. Our system will need to fundamentally change if he is going to make it work.

Let me have a look who else might be here. Do we have any Western Australian members? That is going a little bit too far away. In Queensland there are hardly any so we really are not going to be able to—

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