Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

There are two things there I want to follow up. One is that not everybody does have a Medicare number. I thought the point of having this system was because not everyone has a Medicare number—there are a number of people on the card. So it is a bit different, and that is one reason why I understood we needed to have this.

The point about the double number system—and, again, I am trying really hard not to be obtuse and to understand this—I do not get. I do not get why it is going to cause a problem if people absolutely do not have a number and if they choose not to use their number.