Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

It is so important because for five years patients have been shelling out hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars they shouldn't have had to pay. The former coalition government received exactly the same advice we received, but they chose to back a lobby group instead of the interests of millions of patients. That's not what we're going to do.

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