Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

Everything I have outlined—the investment that the government is making to ensure that rural, regional and remote Australians have the same level of health care as those of us who are able to live in metropolitan centres—is only because we manage a strong economy. It is only because we understand fiscal responsibility. If you look at what occurred when those opposite, the Labor Party, were last in government as we saw, as a direct consequence of their failure to manage the budget, there was a direct impact on Australia's health system. This impact directly affects Australians. What Labor did was they actually stopped listing life-saving drugs on the PBS. Why? Because they ran out of money. The coalition government, the Morrison government, understand the benefits of a strong economy and being able to invest in rural, regional and remote health.