I was just wondering if you think the Rudd Health Plan (that was agreed to now that Brumby has changed his mind) will help Rudd win the next election? To be honest I don't really have a clue what was agreed!!! Something about money money money? <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':o' />
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Quote:Kevin Rudd has used political bribery and brute force to wrest from the states a new Commonwealth power over hospitals. Sounding as if he were already electioneering, Rudd immediately wielded it as an ''historic agreement for better health and better hospitals for the working families of Australia''.
The agreement is incomplete - Western Australia has so far refused to sign up - but it gives Rudd a critical credential.
After the collapse of his campaign to introduce an emissions trading scheme, Rudd needed a major deal to be able to claim that he is a reforming prime minister. The hospitals agreement will form the basis for that claim, with Rudd describing it yesterday as a ''huge reform''.
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