Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I'm confused. I thought I was pretty good at maths. The explanatory memorandum says:

Patients who are part of the Closing the Gap program won't have to pay more to reach the general patient PBS Safety Net threshold.

The safety net is expressed as a dollar value and prescription is also expressed as a dollar value. How could a person spend more to reach the safety net, and that is a defined value? Yes, they would need more prescriptions to qualify but they wouldn't, as your explanatory memorandum says, spend any more money. How is that the case? It's basic maths.