Fed: Rudd to Brumby: hospitals need money and reform

AAP General News (Australia)
04-14-2010
Fed: Rudd to Brumby: hospitals need money and reform

CANBERRA, April 14 AAP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says hospitals will have the "same
old problems" if the premiers don't agree to his health system overhaul.

Victorian Premier John Brumby is resisting the federal government's plan and is expected
to outline his reasons at a National Press Club address on Wednesday.

Mr Rudd told central Queensland radio station 4RO on Wednesday that Mr Brumby should
know money alone wouldn't fix the health system.

"More money for the health system without more reform just means more business as usual,"

he said.

"More business as usual just means the same old hospital system with the same old problems."

Mr Rudd will visit Gosford Hospital, on the NSW Central Coast, on Wednesday.

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KEYWORD: HOSPITALS RUDD

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