Aged care providers have emerged as a massive backing, calling for more federal funding for aged care as a price for supporting Kevin Rudd's health reform plan.

They reveal that such a move could empty thousands of patients from public hospitals.

Queensland Health Minister Paul Lucas has proposed for raising better funds for aged care as a price for his Government's acquiescence in the reform plan, which would see 30 per cent of GST funding clawed back from the states to pay local hospital networks directly.

As per the proposal, the Commonwealth would take 33% of the state's GST revenue and utilize it to raise its share of funding for public hospitals to 60 per cent.

Some Queensland aged care providers had been forced to leave their beds, while aged care patients remained in public hospitals, revealed Paul Lucas.

Nicola Roxon told ABC Radio, "We want to understand from the states and territories whether they are up for this type of reform before we're keen to make announcements about additional investments".