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Mark Butler on a better healthcare system for Australians

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Spending Existing Health Budgets Better

There's a limited pot of money. It's not a money tree here. Is 750 the pot or could that be larger in the May budget? Well, we'll see what comes out of the May budget. I've been pretty brutally clear, I hope, that we're not going to put additional money into existing systems that aren't working. If you can get to a point where you feel like you can implement some systemic change that delivers better health outcomes, does the pot of money increase? No health minister I've ever known in my life would say, oh, no, actually, I'm not going to go to ERC and ask for more money if I think that there's

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