Senate debates Questions without Notice

Medicare


Stephen Parry

Stephen Parry Tasmania, Liberal Party

2:28 pm

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. The minister struggled to answer the formative question, so he has obviously not realised he has put a burden on states. Will the federal government provide compensation to the states to help them deal with the increased demand in the public hospital system caused by Labor’s ideologically driven private health insurance cuts? This has been requested by state Labor health ministers from Western Australia, Queensland and Tasmania?

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