House debates

Tuesday, 11 October 2016

Questions without Notice

Medicare

2:01 pm

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

Something around 60c. We had the Labor Party and various other people in the debate claiming that by not unfreezing the indexation and denying, say, 60c that would justify an increase in charges by $10 or $15 or $25. It was ludicrous. The reality is that the indexation freeze was introduced by Labor as a cost measure. It has been maintained by us for precisely the same reason. What we have been able to do is to bring one new drug after another, one new life-saving drug after another, onto the PBS. We have been able to use the scarce resources available—

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