Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. The honourable member knows very well that the Medicare freeze is not, as he said, 'your Medicare freeze'. It is his Medicare freeze. It is the Labor Party's Medicare freeze. They froze it. It was a Labor government decision to freeze the Medicare schedule, and it has been continued. The consequence of unfreezing the freeze and allowing indexation to continue would, as the Minister for Health and I pointed out in the course of the campaign, result in an increase of 60c, was it?

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