Mr ABBOTT (Warringah—Prime Minister) (14:38): There is no such thing. For the benefit of members opposite, public hospital funding goes up nine per cent this year, nine per cent next year, nine per cent the year after that and eight per cent in the year after that. Ms Plibersek interjecting— Mr Burke interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Sydney and the member for Watson will put their props down. Mr ABBOTT: We are increasing public hospital funding every single year—nine per cent, nine per cent, nine per cent and eight per cent. It is going up every year and members opposite should stop pedalling these falsehoods. Ms Plibersek interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Sydney will put her props down or leave! The choice is hers. Mr ABBOTT: Madam Speaker, what they should also do if they do not like the budget that we brought down last year is tell us what they would do. We know that Medicare, which cost $8 billion a decade ago, costs $20 billion now and will cost $34 billion a decade hence. We have a plan. What is the opposition's? If you do not like our plan— Ms O'Neil interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Hotham will desist! Mr ABBOTT: to fix the problem that you created, tell us what your plan is. Our plan, as the Minister for Health has made absolutely crystal clear, is to protect our great Medicare system. Not for nothing was I, as health minister, the best friend that Medicare has had. I will now give that title to the current health minister. But I want to be the best Prime Minister that Medicare has ever had. The way to do that is to work constructively with the health professionals and to work constructively with the Australian Medical Association. That is exactly what we are doing, to protect the vulnerable, to improve services to make our great Medicare system even better and to increase public hospital funding by nine per cent this year, nine per cent next year, nine per cent the year after that and eight per cent in the final year. That is what we are doing.