Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Labor has rejected GP taxes and co-payments before, Assistant Treasurer. We certainly reject the cuts to health, to hospitals, to doctors and to nurses in the community. How could cutting into primary care, cutting into GPs—stopping asthmatics, diabetics and people with chronic diseases from going to their GP—possibly be sensible? It is a silly thing to do, because they end up in hospitals—and this government has cut hospitals as well. The manner of funding this fund has been manifestly unfair. Whatever good can come from this fund—and we hope a lot of good does come from it—will be mired in the misfortune of other people who are losing out on their health care today.

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