https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/583938/did-nz-s-sweeping-health-reforms-deliver-on-their-promise-three-years-on-the-verdict-is-mixed For most New Zealanders, the success of the reforms will not be judged by how well agencies align at the centre, but by whether they can see a GP when they need one, afford that visit, and avoid ending up in hospital as a result. #nzpol #health #VoteHealth

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00048/whats-the-difference-between-private-management-of-public-hospitals-and-a-perfumed-turd.htm

So what is the difference between PPPs and private management of public hospitals and a ‘perfumed turd’? Somewhere between very, very little and none at all.

The turd is what it is (unable to be shined); the perfume is the rhetoric used by Serco and other aspiring private profiteers to provide the rationalisation for ideological predisposed governments.

#nzpol #VoteHealth #PPP #privatisation

The trick was to keep adding on the previous year's increase as "new money", ignoring the fact that it would have been eaten up by inflation.

"It's a very creative ploy that one, so I think we need to see it for what it is," he said.

"All governments do this sort of thing, but in the scheme of things, this one is pretty brazen."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/562513/government-s-health-boost-less-than-claimed-expert-says

#nzpol #votehealth #creativeaccounting