So the economic narrative of the Turnbull Government has come to this. A ‘tax and spend’ Budget that is more Labor (not even Labor-lite) than Liberal, with health policy as its political centrepiece.
All governments make political calculations at budget time, especially in electorally-sensitive policy areas. But what is so shocking about this Budget is the extent to which the government caved in over Medicare.
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