Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the House) | Hansard source

At a time when, as I said, we need to lean so heavily into the need to find additional capacity in the aged-care system, that was not a use of taxpayer funds that we felt we were able to continue.

Now, to the question that I was asked or referred by the Prime Minister, our modelling indicates that this will lead to a change of about 44,000 people in the health insurance system—or about, I think, 0.4 per cent of the health insurance membership. Set that against the fact that health insurance membership has been climbing by two per cent per year on a very consistent basis over the last several years. Health insurance will continue to grow.

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