House debates Matters of Public Importance
Health Care
Greg Hunt Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health
3:41 pm
It goes from $99 billion to $102 billion to $104 billion to $109 billion. Medicare goes up from $25 billion to $26 billion to $27 billion to $29 billion. That is up $4.8 billion.
What we see now is that Labor are so incapable of making their own arguments that they are now saying, 'Yes, it's going up, but the population's growing.' You know what? Medicare funding is going up. Let me give you some examples of new Medicare items which we brought in: 3D mammograms for up to 200,000 women are included in this budget, as are a new funding item—
Ms Catherine King interjecting—
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