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

It will not be government policy. The minister has made that clear. I have made it clear. The secretary of the department has made it clear. The honourable member obviously regrets that the Medicare scare she and her colleagues ran before the election has run out of steam. So she now wants to find another one. Let us be very clear: we support private health insurance for precisely the reasons the minister just said. The only party in this chamber determined to undermine it—I should not exclude the Greens, of course; the only major party—is the Labor Party. That is their agenda. It is not ours and it never will be ours.

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