HEALTH Minister Sussan Ley won't say voters deserted the Coalition nationally because of claims it would privatise Medicare.
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Asked why it seemed voters believed the Labor Party view the Coalition would privatise Medicare, she was coy.
"I don't know, we'll wait to see the analysis following the election and I'm quite comfortable with where we are at the moment," Ms Ley said.
"There's no second term government in Australia's history that has not lost seats in the second term.
"The tide goes in when you get into government and unfortunately it goes out on the second term."
Ms Ley slammed Labor's Medicare approach as "a disgraceful scare campaign" with a text purportedly sent from Medicare to voters described as "deceitful at best and..fraudulent misrepresentation at worst".
The Labor Party's Queensland branch has accepted responsibility for the text with the Liberal Party complaining to police.
Trainee doctor Christian Kunde, who resigned as Farrer's Labor candidate, said Ms Ley had failed to rebut his party's argument and for evidence pointed to Telstra being contracted to manage health records.
"If she can't articulate her case that's her problem, it's not ours," Mr Kunde said.
"It's remarkable that a minister says the Opposition can dictate the narrative."
Farrer Greens candidate and medico Amanda Cohn said feedback she had received suggested there was genuine concern Medicare would change.
"We're in the seat of the federal Health Minister and people I spoke to were certainly concerned about health care and to me Medicare was not a scare campaign," Dr Cohn said.
"The Coalition still supports the Medicare freeze on rebates and that's a real issue for us."
