The Labor government really want you to take note of the health funding boosts it has made in recent days, as well as think about what a Coalition government might do with it, with a parliamentary motion put forward by Robertson MP Gordon Reid (also a ER doctor) asking the house to debate:

That this House:

(1) acknowledges that the Government is building Australia’s future by building a stronger Medicare with:

(a) free Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, so that you and your family have access to bulk billed health care when you need it; (b)cheaper medicines, cutting the cost of prescriptions; and (c)the largest investment in bulk billing in Medicare history, which is restoring bulk billing after ten years of cuts and neglect;

(2) expresses its concern at the Leader of the Opposition’s record as Health Minister when he: (a)tried to end bulk billing by making patients pay a tax every time they see a General Practitioner; (b) cut $50 billion from public hospitals; and (c) was voted worst Health Minister in the history of Medicare by Australian doctors; and

(3) further acknowledges only the Government can be trusted to protect and strengthen Medicare.

But the debate seems to have been set up for Bennelong MP Jerome Laxale to lay down this line: “two great things were born in 1983; Medicare and me”.