[frio]

I’m on my phone right now and getting search engines to limit their time frame in a mobile UI is tiresome, so I’ll do that when I’m back at a computer :) (but the core thing to do is compare projected budget under the previous govt and actual budget under this govt). Both of those numbers above are post-new budget. The budgeted “increase” in healthcare was less than the increases in population and inflation. It gets worse when we add in the fact that NZ has an aging population with requisite cost increases. This govt gave us tax cuts and restored billions of dollars in tax rebate for landlords which decreased the spending pool available for things like healthcare.

[robocat]

Healthcare is insatiable: we can always spend more and most people feel awful for those that miss out (due to budget constraints).

Choices need to be made, compromises decided. And everybody will complain that the decisions were wrong for them.