So Junior Doctors are on strike because of their insane work loads while at the same time Bill English manufactures a $1.8billion surplus by cutting back on the social infrastructure so the richest amongst us can get tax cuts.
It’s an obscene juxtaposition but because our media are more concerned with All Blacks having sex romps in disabled toilets, that obscenity is never highlighted the way it should be.
We can’t have tax cuts when so many crucial social obligations are underfunded especially when the majority who will benefit from tax cuts are the already rich. Tax cuts expand inequality, they don’t reverse it.
Once upon a time such grotesque and selfish policies would be rejected by the people of NZ – these days when so many of the middle classes are wannabe property speculators, they’ll probably cheer tax cuts while bitching about doctors on strike and never appreciate the irony of their own stupidity.
National have dragged the country deep into debt to fund pet projects, idealogical experiments and crony capitalism while cutting back on social obligations. They are taxpayer funding the elites of NZ while everyone else gets crumbs.
Key wants a fourth term. It’ll make him feel like a special snowflake. And he’ll damn future generations to miserable penury in order to do it. Because… arsehole.
Why are these young doctors working such ridiculous hours?
Who made the rules for such hours?
Bottom line is we can’t afford anything : http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/debtclock/newzealand
Surely there is a health and safety violation here?
that was my thoughts as well, Jack. I doubt truckers would be allowed to work 12 days in a row!!
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman said they can’t reduce doctor’s hours (from a gruelling TWELVE DAY WEEK!!!) without hiring 160 other doctors, costing $60 million.
To which I thought, “WHAT THE HELL???”
Do we let truck drivers and airline pilots work 12 days in a row?
Even politicians work only four days each week, with massive breaks in between.
If Coleman thinks having doctors work these dangerously long hours is SAFE, let the next batch of dog-tired doctors work on him when he next goes into hospital.
It is unbelievable that NZers think this is acceptable. This is Third World stuff, and cannot be permitted to continue.
“It has ever been so”
The ‘health system’ serves a fraction of the population only and it serves sickness far more than the pursuit and capture of wellness for the majority. (The rest of us have wistful dreams about ‘being a bit better’.)
The senior doctors obviously survived the insane testing hours – so therefore the newer recruits must also.
Like recruit hazing in the Russian and American military…
Doesn’t do the clients of the system much good, though. (The term ‘patient’ is an offence to dignity. There is much to be very IMpatient indeed about.)
Before any more money is hurled at the antique ‘health system’ – how about bringing it into the 20th century at least? The whole festering construct is crawling with inefficiencies, distrust, and unacceptable delays, plus unnecessary loading from the dotty demands of MSD. If Cuba can – why not us?
Oh yes, we can, interest is low, we can simply borrow more from our mostly Australian owned foreign banks, to pay for both, can we not?
Have another Havana cigar, right now, relax and call the gang for a game of Black Jack.
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