Steven Ciobo (Moncrieff, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am certainly pleased to have the opportunity to rise to speak to the Private Health Insurance Amendment (Lifetime Health Cover Loading and Other Measures) Bill 2012 and the Private Health Insurance Amendment (Base Premium) Bill 2013, because these bills represent the continued assault by the Australian Labor Party on private health insurance and, more broadly, on the Australian community and in particular those that have the wherewithal and the ability to provide for their own health care through private health insurance. We know, and have known for a number of years, that the Labor Party has a philosophical opposition to private health insurance. We know the Labor Party's entire underpinnings are built off socialised medicine, and we know that, where possible, the Labor Party, in my view, would like to close down the private medical system.

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