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

We are guaranteeing Medicare. We are establishing a Medicare guarantee fund. We have backed our guarantee with an additional investment of $2.4 billion for Medicare over the next four years, which includes lifting Labor's Medicare indexation freeze. This was a Labor freeze imposed by Labor, and the Minister for Health has negotiated with the AMA and the general practitioners to progressively lift that freeze, and that is happening. At the same time, the rate of GP bulk-billing has continued to rise in the first quarter of this year, hitting 85.6 per cent. We are delivering on our commitment to a strong Medicare and a strong PBS. We are listing new drugs on the PBS, drugs Labor did not list. We are listing drugs like the drug Entresto, for the treatment of chronic heart failure. We have listed over 1,400 new medicines on the PBS. How many were listed under Labor's last three years?. There were 331. They rationed those life-saving drugs; we are providing them for the health of Australians. (Time expired)

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