Greens pledge billions for health

The Greens have pledged to have billions go towards health to help boost hospital funding and lift the freeze on Medicare rebates.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale has announced billions of dollars to go to health. Source: AAP

The Greens will pledge an extra $1 billion for public hospitals and the thawing of the federal government's Medicare rebate freeze.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale will announce the $1.1 billion hospital funding boost in Goulburn on Wednesday, topping up the $2.9 billion the federal government promised to the states at the April Council of Australian Governments meeting.

It'll mean states get an extra $4 billion for hospitals to 2020.

The Greens will also pledge $2.4 billion to lift the federal government's indexation freeze on the rebate it pays for Medicare services like GP visits, which doctors have warned will force patients to pay co-payments.

Labor has also promised to lift the freeze from January 1.

The Greens will pledge a return to the original hospital funding deal the former Labor government made with states in 2011.

"Both Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten have failed to make the commitment to secure our health system," Senator Di Natale said.

"It's patients that lose out when funding for hospitals remains uncertain and inadequate."

The federal government has committed to funding 45 per cent of growth in hospitals but Senator Di Natale says that figure must be increased to 50 per cent.

"If the government isn't able to secure the future of Australian healthcare, then we are in a sick state of affairs."

Of the extra $1.1 billion NSW will get $358.5 million, Victoria $269.7 million, Queensland $213 million, Western Australia $134.3 million, South Australia $88.4 million, Tasmania $23.5 million, Canberra $41 million and the Northern Territory $17.8 million.