I don’t think people appreciate just how radical our neoliberal reforms were to public services and no where can you see the grim truth of throwing out egalitarianism and progressive fairness for money and profit margins better than this brilliant Stuff article that highlights the terrible legacy of fucking over our public health system.
Look at these stats and gasp in horror at what we have wrought…
…people claim this can’t be true, but the facts stack it up and it is true.
We have progressively decreased taxing the richest to fund out public services until the public services fall over and the public scream ‘something must be done’ and the Right ‘here’s something’ and they privatise a little more and you get even less.
The ease with which the sleepy hobbits of muddle NuZilind are led to give the rich more while hurting the poor is a Kiwi super power.
Feel shame at how you anger is manipulated by the Right every election Kiwi.
Let that shame burn.
The Commissioner who has been appointed to be the hatchet man for the first wave of austerity and privatisation inside Public Health is entirely manufactured.
In the Budget, National allocated just 2.9% increase to health services but inflation was 3.3% and population growth 2.6% while an ageing population adds more to costs!
Let that shame burn Kiwi.
National gave 2.9% for health but we needed 8% to stand still, is the electorate dumb enough to fall for National’s latest manufactured public service crisis to introduce more failed free market reforms?
The Minister says we can’t afford $1.4billion for health but we could borrow $14billion for tax cuts, again is the electorate dumb enough to believe this?
Feel that shame Kiwi.
This is really serious and the speed with which it has been forced by a Government hell bent on borrowing for tax cuts but not for public services!
We wouldn’t be needing to find an extra billion if we weren’t borrowing $14 billion for tax cuts!!!!!!
What have you done Kiwi?
This is occurring as Newshub is dead and the level of fourth estate journalism blunted.
The guard dogs of democracy have been anesthetized and replaced with Social Media hate algorithms.
We are in a lot of trouble.
If Health NZ were the Tobacco Industry, would this Government be sacking staff?
This is all on you now Kiwi.
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SADLY the kiwi voters and the hate that is rampent in NZ is a blight on our country that will take a long time to pass .The next wave of young voters will lead the way as are the new wave of young under 30 leaders popping up around the country .Local councils are finally showing a bit of courage and are voicing thier distaste of the current government but need to take a stand and say no .They have enough in the numbers game to issue a serious challenge to the government and refuse to bend over to Brown and his fucked plans .The cost to ratepayers is rising by the day under this lot of clowns .If the anti red neck councils band together and say NO what will the government do ? take the whole 60 to court ,I dont think so as they know they will lose .Local councils only need to prove that their right to govern locally and enforce what ever they deem as correct for their local roads or what ever have been under cut by central government .After all the local roads are owned by the local council and its rate payers
Well, neoliberal economic policy, much like other policies spearheaded by the global elitists, are rarely, if ever, talked about by our politicians, let alone their mainstream media cheerleaders so why should everyday Kiwis feel the least bit shamed. We know stuff all about neoliberalism and that’s by design.
Kiwis know that healthcare has been on the decline – and more – but what party and which MSM outlet, is really going to make a song and dance about this. How about none of them. Politics is broken, the media is broken yet still we believe in both of them like we never have believed in them before. Shame is not the word we should be feeling – hoodwinked – is what we should be feeling!
So many have work and private insurance schemes that they may not be aware of what the dwarf from Dipton embarked upon when sabotaging what was once a very good free national health service. Shame lies with the politicians who see the full picture and refuse to act ethically and responsibly.
Yes the silverspooner Double Dipper From Dipton , (who is still in the background sticking in his rotten oar), alongside the slippery snake Key, were about as trustworthy and as competent at running the country as a love child from a used car dealer and a realestate agent.
English was/is fundamentally hopeless… clueless in fact…stupid ideas…no commonsense… no vision..
Your typical silverspooner…
A country version of the Epsom crowd.
And yet there he is …still clipping the taxpayer ticket for not only himself, but his offspring now, for their uselessness!
Great article. The graphic showing the number of hospital beds – and in particular the decline in private beds – is exceptionally insightful. Because the ‘free market’ expectation is that a decline in public provision would be taken up by the private hospitals. But instead we see the opposite. This is because, as seen in a number of sectors in NZ, scarcity is the key to profitability. If either the public or private health system were to meet demand then the private sector would not be profitable.
Voters in the majority are not impacted by serious health issues so it is very electorally feasible to run the health system into the ground and suffer no electoral blowback. This was proven by the UK Conservatives who retained power for 14 years and did exactly what Reti is doing now – despite everyone in the UK proclaiming to love the public health system.
There is a hiring freeze in our health system and don’t let the trolls tell you any different. Who said again it would not affect the frontline staff are all liars,every single one of these ministers aided and abetted by their backbenchers with no conscience.
Bob claims the right to disagree.
‘Bob claims the right to disagree.’
Bob can indeed disagree but:
As Lenin said to Trotsky,
‘Everyone has the right to stupidity – but you abuse the privilege!’
It is now a painful reality that a certain percentage of voters in NZ are as thick as the MAGA idiots in the USA.
Anyone that supports this coalition of callous arseholes needs help.
Bomber, its a planet wide, more dosh here come, and thats been the so called rule, of open market , outside its shame of health care, debt what a a teach to be who you care to be, market cost and 0ayment.
OH! Rodger, and your cronies, what a care our thought, of yours.
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