If Simeon Brown as Health Minister is the answer, what the Christ was the question?
If Simeon Brown as Health Minister is the answer what the Christ was the question???
Our new Minister of Health was president of anti-abortion group, ProLife Auckland, at University FFS!
National are in so much trouble and the first political poll of the year spells that out and in a move of desperation, Luxon throws the luckless Dr Shane Reti under the bus for the massive political headache public health has become BECAUSE OF NATIONAL’S HEALTH BUDGET CUTS!
Remember:
The crisis in health funding is a manufactured one!
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.
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 Finance Minister says we can’t afford $1.4billion for health but we could borrow $14billion for tax cuts?
Is the electorate dumb enough to believe this?
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.
Believing Simeon bloody Brown is the solution to this manufactured crisis in public health is not serious politics!
Simeon Brown is currently raising speed limits around schools to ‘lift productivity’ FFS!
His literal Christian Faith creates a level of self belief utterly at odds with his actual talent and has only met expectations because he’s 4foot 11 and looks 14 years old!
The Kiwi public are only now waking up to his plan to weaponise our impatience (thanks to roading gridlock) by quietly privatising the roading network.
If sneaking road tolls and congestion prices while slashing public transport subsidies past sleepy hobbits who are triggered every time they see a cyclist is considered ‘competence’ in National, Chris Luxon is in more trouble than were have realised.
Making Simeon Brown the Health Minister is an act of desperation.
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Tolls on the hospital door next.
Number plates on your forehead.
Tolled 6 lane Drive through tunnel
for speed surgery.
Make CUTs count, take out all organs at the same time, not just the appendix.
Insert microchips for surveillance big data at births.
Put unemployed nurse grads
on work scheme- filling potholes.
Close epidemiology, reassign disease data as playground accident.
Traffic light/3 strikes approach denying
healthcare to repeat patients.
Close gynaecology. Laying of hands faith healing instead with Simon O’Connor as head cleric.
Dear Simeon,
You look very handsome on TV. I wish you well in your new health portfolio. As a recent arrival from over the Tasman, I noticed that the medication Suvorexant isn’t available here. I’ve used it for insomnia, which is a very common condition, and found it helped me, and helped my productivity at work. And poor sleep is apparently also a risk factor for alzheimers. So if it becomes available, it could reduce future costs of people in care. Hope this gives you some ideas from fresh eyes, compared with the health bureaucrats you’ll deal with.
Very witty, OToole.
Mike Walker Bill English tried that. He proposed a $50 per day charge for public hospital patient stays. You know and I know this would financially cripple many families, but slimey wee English didn’t care, and it won’t be number plates it’ll be microchips.
The question was:
Are you ok to make decisions that mean that more people will die?
Putting it bluntly if Simeon Brown is the answer to health then the coalition is doomed, we the citizens of this country deserve better than this, they must be voted out asap.
Totally agree!
They chopped Reti’s ball off with smoking Costello she stays he goes. It seems that the 14% of coalition ministers are untouchable no matter what they do or don’t do. Looking at Willis for a brief second today she is feeding very well at the taxpayers expense in more ways than one
Yes and the fixed grimaced smile says it all….
Her stupid naivety hubristic decisions has fucked the country in just 12 months and the chickens are rapidly coming home to roost.
Luxon claiming that it was she who brought interest rates and inflation
down is just pure delusion or straight our lying….
It was such an obvious lie…Why didn’t the media challenge that?
As the tide goes out on their disastrous tenure Luxon and Willis
looked completely at sea without a
lifeboat in sight.
Poor old Reti only had one ball
Yeah and it was kicked to touch
Now he’s got no balls at all !!!
The question is who the hell thought National were better than Labour?
The intelligent knew the answer was that National were worse by a significant margin. They see health as a profitable business. That is completely flawed.
Labour has always seen health as non negotiable necessity.
We can now say with certainly that Labour were well on the right track prior to the last election and now National and it’s ideology has destroyed Te Whatu Ora NZ
Absolutely 100% correct.
Because of National the holidays pay act for hospital workers has been delayed by two years. Health workers should sue National for lost interest.
National are a disgrace .
Simeon Brown is a Muppet, not his fault mind you, it just highlights what a complete idiot Luxon is.
When someone with an English degree is running the economy, it doesn’t matter what the question is. The last lot also had an Arts graduate wrecking the economy. The current crowd are anxious to compete.
A former tax lawyer, Barbara Edmonds was head hunted from Inland Revenue in 2016 to work with then-ministers of revenue Michael Woodhouse and Judith Collins. In the last Labour govt Barbara Edmonds held the ministerial portfolios of Associate Finance, Revenue, Economic Development, Internal Affairs, Pacific Peoples, Associate Health, Associate Housing, Associate Immigration and Associate Cyclone Recovery and is now labour’s finance spokesperson. The current crowd have no one that can compete.
Ennius. That dubious little dwarf from Dipton will still be in there one way or another, IMO.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Nicky No Boats as minister for economic development what a cluster fuck
I think this one’s funnier…
” Police Minister Mark Mitchell adds Ethnic Communities, formerly held by Lee, and Sport and Recreation to his responsibilities.”
Which just tells us how fucking useless Lee was and like all of National ministers, out of their depth.
If Simeon Brown is the coalition’s go to fix it man we really are screwed. So let me get this straight. We have an English degree holder running finance and business growth (a misnomer if there ever was one), a bank teller running health with a lying tabaco lobbyist as his associate, and a lying gun nut in charge of firearms reform. Throw in the liar in chief Chris Bishop, Mr I’m Sorted and Entitled apparently running the show, and Incel Dave running a Stasi style dob in a regulation hotline and you can see why people are becoming disillusioned to say the least. Utter shitshow.
And why 80,000 fled the country in the past 12 months because they could see the rapid deterioration of N.Z. and the ensuing clusterfuck which is now well upon us…the writing is on the wall and seeped into every crevace
Labour left health in a brilliant state. Nationals coalition of chaos had killed it, just like the Cook straight ferries and unemployment figures and the cost of living. We are now in a recession all because of National.
Brown is Luxons bum boy, clueless.
I wonder if wee simian is lining up a leadership challenge…
Looking at Randy Neumann’s wonderful ode “Short People” to see how this will pan out.
Simeon will have no conflict with the Hippocratic oath.
With Luxon opening a can of worms, the question could be how many will provide pizza toppings for spaghetti English and his kin?
Reti has gone because he doesn’t want to be at the helm when the push to privatisation starts this year.
Brian Privatisation by stealth has already been progressing for a long time now.
Yes, but under Seymour they will turbo charge it- no comparison to previous governments.
If inflation is 3.3% and population growth is 2.6%, then you need 6% to stand still, not 8, right?
Things can’t rise at 8% p.a. forever.
TBH I think this is Luxon giving Brown a poison pill.
Why is this not a surprise.
No National government in history has been good in health.
No National government since WWII has been better than Labour with the economy.
Chris said “ the world is wash with cash” ergo the question is, “ Whose world, Luxon, whose world is awash with cash?”
Yours? Off-shore banks ? Foreign investors ? The boys from Davos ? Come clean, Christopher.
“Simeon Brown is currently raising speed limits around schools to ‘lift productivity’ FFS!”
Appallingly running over more kids and having them treated by the same number of doctors and nurses does increase the productivity of the hospitals.
Being Minister of Health is a fool’s errand. It’s a financial black hole that can never be filled to meet everyone’s expectations. The legacy media will always be able to find a case of someone who died because they couldn’t get surgery or a cancer medicine, then use it to beat the government over the head with it.
So, I see the latest shuffle as a sign of desperation by Luxon & Willis because their ‘tinkering around the edges’ approach isn’t making much difference. She wants to grow the economy but that cannot happen until the bureaucratic barriers are removed both in local and central government. The ‘fast track’ legislation thing is OK to get some roads built, but beyond that it smells a bit like picking winners to me: A thing that politicians of all shades are very poor at.
Orrs and Nationals war on the construction industry
creates losers of us all. 5% fall in gdp.
Having a go at creating some winners can’t hurt. Most industries or companies of consequence almost always have or have had some level of govt support.
Andrew In a small country like New Zealand, with an historically small population, a free national health service is achievable, and it once was. We were probably better than the Brit’s NHS, and once were world leaders with our low infant mortality rates, good in-house maternity services, no elective surgery waits, free routine dental care for all primary school children, in-hospital geriatric services, and various out-patients’ procedures now also gone, or privatised out. I think the regression started in the early 1980’s; the reasons why aren’t too complex, and more than just a matter of cost- effective medicine.
Totally agree and so to the regressive selling off of all the govt assets such as electricity, railways, airways, banking, telecommunications, NZ Steel, Petrocorp, Postbank, Shipping Corp, National Film Unit, Rural banking and Finance Corp, Govt Printing Office, and the list goes on.
Putting it bluntly New Zealand has been raped and plundered.
Andrew promotes the con that privatisation of health and utilities will benefit the population despite 40 years of evidence to the contrary.
Correct Brian.
This is bad, very, very bad.
Simian’s goal is to turn NZ health system into USA’s profit driven nightmare.
Assassinating health insurance CEOs has proven to be popularly supported by the US population.
At least we’ll soon have easier access to deadly armory in order to follow suit.
Pothole Brown, will just fill in the Dunedin hospital site with pothole mix, mixed with bullshit. Raise the speed past accident sites to, 50k to help the country with productivity.