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State governments have embraced a new hospital funding deal that the federal opposition says will do nothing to help Australia's ailing public health system.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a national pool of state and federal money would fund hospitals from 2012.
Under the deal struck at the Council of Australian Governments meeting on Sunday, the commonwealth will inject $16.4 billion of growth funding into the pool from 2014 to 2020.