Push Rudd In Health Insurance Means Test

Kevin Rudd has pushed health to the forefront of the agenda of the election, accusing the opposition of depriving hospitals of $ 100 billion over the next four decades, refusing to allow health insurance rebates Private need.

The Prime Minister did not rule out the crowd causes of climate change on health, as a double dissolution, said the coalition has blocked the measures as a means of testing Sturheit'' müde ideological von''reine.

Since the parliament record again this week, Rudd went to the front foot on the strategy of Tony Abbott to reduce greenhouse gas emissions should be developed in the future. Rudd said it was a great megatax würde because it is directly funded by the budget.

The Treasurer, Wayne Swan, announced today the relationship between generations, the government has sat since last year. It provides the Treasury estimates of the burden of budget and expenditures of 2049 for an aging population.

Distribution in the last week, Rudd, what the public health spending spiral, to the extent that they exceed budgets.

Yesterday, he showed that the overall value of the relationship between generations, leaving 30 percent discount of PHI without means $ 100 billion, money he says was necessary for public health in decades to come.

The government announced on means testing in the federal budget in May last year, and it said 1.9 billion dollars over three years to save. The discount will be gradual for singles with incomes over $ 75,000 and for families with $ 150,000.

For middle and higher income, their insurance will result in the landfill Pork higher Medicare Levy.

Controls revenue was broken election promises and the coalition have blocked the Senate in September.

Bill will be reintroduced this week, and he wants a coalition after its release, so the Government, Rudd said that what would $ 100 dollars, double the resolution.

''[Mr. Abbott] is now off the block, it seems, again, this potential 100 billion dollars of investment in health and hospital reform the system,'' Channel Nine Rudd said yesterday.

''If we block these things, then they will inevitably be part of the campaign this year.

''How the choice of being independent of them.''

Mr Abbott confirmed yesterday the coalition once again to block it, he said he would not allow a clear violation of election promises.

General elections later this year, but Rudd can call a double dissolution is scheduled for October 16.

If he chose the latter, then it will not be punished by voters for the beginning and still full of the election of the Senate, with one subject in the center of attention. When the government was reelected with a double dissolution of the law may simply lost consciousness at the joint sitting of both houses of parliament.

Rudd yesterday attacked the shift signals of climate change on the eve of elections. It has already created a trigger for its program of emissions trading, but the legal system to the new system this week, agreed with Malcolm Turnbull, before it cost him his head.

Scheme polluter fees and money for consumers and businesses churn than compensation and adjustment assistance.

Politics, Mr Abbott is not the market mechanism, but direct action, such as planting trees and carbon storage in soil involved.

Mr. Abbott said Rudd should have ETS and go to the landfill. The opposition has slammed the FTA among the major new taxes, but Rudd hit back and said that Mr Abbott is also a blow to taxpayers rather than polluters to finance its project.

Finance ''A approach megatax big Mr. Abbott on climate change,'' he said.