New Zealanders are now dying from an underfunded health system
Telehealth and the government's other bandaid solutions aren't working for Kiwis
On the 16th June, I wrote “Crashing New Zealand’s health system is not the way to prosperity, Prime Minister” to outline the serious detriment the government’s budget cuts and chosen austerity measures were causing.
Besides repealing New Zealand’s smoke free generation law, which would have generated over $45bn of economic and health benefits for NZ, and admitting having more smokers would help fund their tax cuts, there have been more than a few signs that the National-ACT-NZ First government just doesn’t seem to care much for our public health system.
These include, but are not limited to:
Broken promise to fund new mental health doctors. Zero funding was provided in the budget despite our mental health crisis;
Broken promise to fund 50 new medical doctors. Instead, only half was funded, which Reti tried to blame on Universities, that promptly repudiated the government’s misinformation. This is despite our critical doctor shortage.
Broken promise to fund primary care family doctors 14% a…