Fed: PM challenges Beazley to rule out ditching health rebate

AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-2000
Fed: PM challenges Beazley to rule out ditching health rebate

CANBERRA)

Prime Minister JOHN HOWARD has challenged Opposition Leader KIM BEAZLEY to rule out
scrapping the 30 per cent private health insurance rebate to fund Labor's promised GST
rollback.

Labor has attacked the rebate as a waste of money and it could be an alternative to
lifting income tax or cutting into the budget surplus as ways to fund the …