The ACT government’s new $250 annual health levy remains in doubt with the Greens and the Canberra Liberals maintaining it’s too bitter a pill to swallow for Canberrans already struggling to make ends meet.
But the Treasurer insists it’s a necessary treatment for a budget that has slid more than a billion dollars into the red and an ailing health system.
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