Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

What we seek to do in this budget is to make Medicare sustainable. We introduced the co-payment, $5 of which goes into the Medical Research Future Fund, $2 of which goes into doctors' pockets so that we can help supplement the money that they get from Medicare now, so that we keep bulk billing. We cannot afford Labor's model of giving everything to everybody for free and racking it up on the credit card. Bob Hawke knew it. Jenny Macklin knows it. The member for Fraser knows it. So do the member for Werriwa and many others.

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