At first glance 60 cents isn't much money, but in federal budget terms it can add up to about $12 billion over a decade.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wants voters to remember both amounts when they go to the polls on July 2.
The 60 cents is the amount he says doctors are foregoing every time they bulk-bill one of their patients because of an extended freeze on Medicare rebates.
The $12 billion is the cost to the budget bottom line of Labor's pledge to abandon the freeze and return to indexed increases.
Doctors and Labor claim many Australians will be forced to pay up to $20 out of their own pocket every time they see their GP if the freeze continues through to 2020 as the government plans.
Mr Turnbull disputes that figure, labelling it a "reckless exaggeration" by Labor leader Bill Shorten.
"Now, clearly what he's doing is, as usual, trying to scare people about Medicare," he told reporters while campaigning in his eastern-Sydney electorate on Sunday.
The government has been on the backfoot ever since Mr Shorten announced a Labor government would restore indexed increases from January 2017.
The move has been embraced by doctors and other health professionals.
Labor added to coalition pain on Sunday by announcing it would continue to oppose a planned hike in the cost of taxpayer-subsidised medicines.
Instead it will maintain the practice of indexing co-payments to inflation, as opposed to a $5 increase the coalition plans for each prescription.
Labor's plan will cost the budget nearly $1 billion over four years.
A clearly frustrated prime minister hit out at both Labor policies.
"The black hole of unfunded promises keeps on getting deeper and darker," he said.
Mr Turnbull endeavoured to put the Medicare rebate freeze into perspective.
Not indexing the rebate to inflation meant that doctors were receiving about 60 cents less than they would have for each consultation.
By 2020 that figure would amount to $2.50.
Both Mr Turnbull and Health Minister Sussan Ley defended the coalition's plan to increase prescription costs, saying it had allowed the government to list new treatments for melanoma and breast cancer on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
It's also provided funding for continuous glucose monitors for young people with Type 1 Diabetes.
"These are the new drugs and new technologies we can afford if we manage our health budget sustainably," Mr Turnbull said.
Mr Shorten said Labor policy was about ensuring sick people were not deterred from going to the doctor or getting the medicine they need.
Both leaders were to forced respond to criticism of offshore processing after World Vision chief Tim Costello likened the treatment of asylum seekers on Nauru to torture.
Mr Shorten conceded Mr Costello had a point, vowing to make regional resettlement a priority if he became prime minister after the July 2 election.
Mr Turnbull said he didn't accept Mr Costello's claim that not being resettled in Australia or a third country and an inability to return home for fear of persecution amounted to psychological torture.
Federal MPs from the prime minister played down revelations parliamentarians have been allowed to use rent, mortgage repayments, electricity bills and renovations for their Canberra properties as tax deductions.
"That is how it is and that's how it should be and how it has been for a very long time," Mr Turnbull said.
