Opposition vows to block health rebate test

MARK KENNY

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OPPOSITION Leader Malcolm Turnbull has launched the biggest gamble of his career by deciding to vote against a key measure in the Government's Budget. In the highly charged political atmosphere surrounding his Budget Reply speech last night, Mr Turnbull branded the Budget's optimistic 4.5 per cent growth forecasts "unbelievable" and vowed to block the new income test for the 30 per cent private health insurance rebate.

"The changes to the private health insurance rebate are just the latest phase in Labor's unrelenting war against private health insurance," he said. "Never was an election promise given more emphatically and then broken so brazenly."

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