It was sold as the big election debate on health.

This lunchtime before the TV cameras at the National Press Club and for the first and probably only time before voters head to the polls, Greg Hunt and Catherine King went head-to-head.

The topics were wide-ranging — from cancer care to health insurance rebates to the PBS to Mr Hunt’s doomed campaign to make Peter “the-worst-health-minister-in-Australian-history” Dutton the nation’s 30th prime minister.

Some of the answers were more enlightening than others.