| Publication: | news.com.au |
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| Date: | 24 February 2010 |
| Section: | Breaking News |
Article excerpt:
THE Rudd Government has another double-dissolution trigger in its pocket after the Senate rejected, for a second time, Labor's proposed changes to the Medicare levy surcharge.
The upper house is yet to vote on a separate but related bill that would see the 30 per cent private health insurance rebate means tested.
... Labor argues the two measures are crucial to make private health more sustainable. But the Coalition says the government is waging an ideological war against private health funds and breaking an election promise in the process.
The proposed changes to the Medicare levy surcharge would have penalised wealthier Australians who didn't take out private cover.
... Health Minister Nicola Roxon today slammed the Senate for voting against ``the first of the private health insurance rebate measures''.
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