Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese said Labor will increase public hospital funding, train additional healthcare professionals and triple incentives for GP bulk billing if elected. Video via X/ @AlboMP
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00:00There are two issues that brought me into public life, being the son of an invalid pensioner
00:05who got a rough deal, got a rough deal before Medicare existed, and housing,
00:13the importance of social and public housing. I bring my experience into public life. I care
00:20about health. There is nothing that is more important than healthcare. Labor governments
00:26have always made a difference on health. Just remember this, when Medicare was introduced by
00:32Gough Whitlam, he had to go to a double dissolution election in order to get it up.
00:39That's how much they hated the idea that this little card here would be able to give the same
00:46healthcare to a billionaire that it gives to an invalid pensioner. They went to an election,
00:52then they got elected under Fraser, they abolished it. It took a Labor government
00:57under Bob Hawke to bring it back, and it took Bob Hawke to be re-elected and re-elected again
01:03to secure it. Now what is at stake at this election is the same thing. We will secure
01:11these gains for health, the increased funding for public hospitals, the support for urgent
01:16care clinics, the tripling of the bulk billing incentive for GPs, the training of additional
01:21health professionals. Or Peter Dutton, who had what is a fantastic job as health minister
01:29and chose to use that to try and gut Medicare, gut health funding, and to undermine the idea
01:38that all that people need is this little bit of green and gold plastic.