The election campaign turned to the thorny issue of asylum-seekers and back to Medicare, with Labor and the Coalition slugging it out over who has the best policy. Labor has made the fear of a Medicare sell-off its dominant message since its official campaign launch last Sunday, when Mr Shorten told voters the government was "privatising Medicare" and seeking to "tear down" the system. The Labor campaign is based on the assumption that the payment system is the same as Medicare itself, but doctors have rejected that argument.
The election campaign turned to the thorny issue of asylum-seekers and back to Medicare, with Labor and the Coalition slugging it out over who has the best policy. Labor has made the fear of a Medicare sell-off its dominant message since its official campaign launch last Sunday, when Mr Shorten told voters the government was "privatising Medicare" and seeking to "tear down" the system. The Labor campaign is based on the assumption that the payment system is the same as Medicare itself, but doctors have rejected that argument.
