Labor has used the second week of the election campaign to highlight the Government's record on health spending.
Ms King's claim is misleading. Fact Check has previously explored this issue in checking a claim by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews in April 2016 and a claim by Ms King in June 2014. This verdict relies on the research contained in those fact checks. Both claims related to Coalition's plans to change a funding arrangement proposed by the Gillard Labor government. But the changes are not due to begin until July 2017 and it is far from certain that the Gillard promises would ever have been fulfilled because they were far into the future and never budgeted for. Something cannot be taken away if it was never given in the first place. In the meantime, Commonwealth spending on hospitals has been in line with Labor's arrangement to date, and is scheduled to increase until 2020 by up to 6.5 per cent a year.
Fact check: Has the Government cut billions out of public hospitals?
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