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

I thank the member for his question. People have seen right through question time today, and really since the budget, that Labor is full of complaint but not solution. We have put forward a solution in this budget to make sure that Medicare is sustainable. Over the course of the last 10 years, the money that we spend each year on Medicare has gone from $8 billion to $20 billion. We have an ageing population. By 2050 7½ thousand Australians a week will be diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's, and I want to make sure—

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