Nothing’s more important than health care’: Albanese’s election promises

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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.

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