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Weeks before the 2022 federal election, a deal made inside then-health minister Greg Hunt’s office locked 14 million privately insured Australians into paying some of the highest prices in the world for surgical hardware.

Federal bureaucrats later told Hunt’s successor, Mark Butler, that the deal went against their advice because it “predominantly benefited industry rather than providing a negotiated balance of benefits to industry and the Australian community”.

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