Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

Indeed, funding is going up by nine per cent this year. It is going up by nine per cent the year after, and it is going up by nine per cent the year after that and six per cent the year after that. Indeed, we are giving $70 billion to the states over the next four years. We are hardly taking money away. We are increasing it from $14 billion to $18.9 billion. So, far from ripping money out, it is increasing. When we contrast this to Labor, which in 2012 actually cut $1.6 billion from hospitals. It is those on the other side who do not focus on hospitals.