House debates Questions without Notice

Health Services

Thursday, 18 August 2011 House of Representatives

Nicola Roxon

Nicola Roxon Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing

2:32 pm

let me just take the House through what that would mean in health: $70 billion worth of savings would mean that we cannot pay at all a Commonwealth contribution for the next four years for any hospital service in the country. That means 40 per cent of all hospitals would close, 20,000 hospital beds would close—

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