Senate debates

Monday, 23 November 2009

Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance) Bill 2009

In Committee

6:27 pm

Photo of Steve FieldingSteve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will be real with you. You do not even have the decency to look at one of the amendments to this bill. Then you come in here and say, ‘It’s because you’ve rearranged the business.’ You turn things on a pinhead in here and expect me to follow, and I do. When something happens that you do not like, you do not have a clue what to do. This amendment is nearly identical to what has been passed before. It is a disgrace that you are not standing up for patient’s records. They are worried about their privacy. They are worried about their own clinical needs and not being seen by someone who is qualified. It is a disgrace that you are coming in here using as an excuse some sort of problem with rearranging the business. Frankly, you have not been able to arrange the business. You could not arrange the business out of a wet paper bag.

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