Guy Barnett (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

In my view, selling Medibank Private will strengthen the private health insurance market, not weaken it as the opposition has asserted. A privately owned entity could reduce management and administration expenses and also expand into new areas of doing business. Why do you want to constrain them under the current arrangements? Is that appropriate? Is that fair? It gets back to my point that business knows how to run business; and it does it better than government, I can assure you of that.