Anthony Albanese has rejected assertions the Labor party has been spreading disinformation after its 'Mediscare' campaign was found to have been edited. 

The Prime Minister was quizzed on Tuesday morning over an advert featured on Labor's social media pages, including those belonging to cabinet minister Ed Husic.

The recent paid attack advert shows an old clip of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton supposedly saying in 2014 that 'Medicare is dead'. 

'They can't be for free. We have to pay for a world-class medical system,' the clip adds. 

However, an investigation by the ABC found that the Labor party had selectively edited the original footage. In the full quote, Mr Dutton said: 'Medicare is dead if we can't make it sustainable today'. 

'The Labor Party will kill Medicare by offering everything to everybody for free and the government is determined to make Medicare sustainable [and] strong, not just for today, these are plans that will set up Medicare for the next decade or two,' he said. 

He added: 'The Labor Party can pretend to the Australian public that things are for free, they can't be for free, we have to pay for a world-class medical system.'

Indeed, the unedited clip shows Mr Dutton defending plans to bring in a co-payment for bulk-billed medical consultations, which was abandoned by the Abbott government a year later in 2015.

But Mr Albanese denied the Labor party was guilty of spreading misinformation and that the advert was justified. 

'Peter Dutton, when he was the health minister – and remember, he was voted Australia's worst health minister by doctors – [he] tried to introduce a GP tax, so a tax every time people went to the doctor that would have had to have made a payment,' Mr Albanese told ABC Sydney.  

'So abolishing bulk billing. Now, bulk billing is at the heart of Medicare. That's why we've tripled the bulk billing incentive.'

The ABC revealed that the selectively edited attack advert had amassed over 200,000 views across Labor's Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and TikTok accounts. 

Ed Husic, the Industry and Science Minister, published the video as a paid ad on Facebook and Instagram in late January. 

The public broadcaster asked Labor to remove the footage, which was originally broadcast on the ABC, as it does not allow political parties to use its content in campaign materials.

However, Daily Mail Australia discovered a slightly different version of the attack ad still up on a Labor-run TikTok account aimed at young voters (see below).

In the ad, Mr Dutton says: 'Medicare is dead... We can move away from the view that everything can be for free in health in this country because it can't be... Medicare will not survive.'

The video ends with note that it has been 'authorised by P Erickson, ALP, Canberra'.

Paul Erickson is the national secretary of the federal Labor Party and the man behind the bid to reelect Mr Albanese.

He was approached for comment.

A Labor spokesman told Daily Mail Australia: 'As soon as Peter Dutton became Health Minister he cut $50billion from public hospitals, tried to abolish bulk billing altogether, tried to jack up medicine prices and make everyone pay a fee every time they went to the emergency department.

'The Australian Labor Party will be reminding Australians of Peter Dutton's record, and on the record remarks, every single day until the election.'