David Gillespie (Lyne, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

That's another matter that shouldn't go on the Hansard record, but anyhow!

The other thing is the extended Medicare safety net. With your out-of-pocket costs for out-of-hospital, if you're a concession card holder, a pensioner or someone on family tax benefit A and you qualify for it, you only have to reach $697 in cumulative out-of-pocket costs and you will get 80 per cent of that out-of-pocket cost covered. If you are not eligible for a Commonwealth concession card, that threshold is $2,184, so there is a system to help you with out-of-pocket costs, but most people don't— (Time expired)

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