The privatization by stealth occurring in our Public health system

How do I put this in a nice way?

I think Kiwis are very easily led by their ignorance and petty bigotry by astro turf right wing groups who manipulate that ignorance and petty bigotry into voting for their interests masquerading as self righteousness.

TDB has warned time and time and time again that ACTs Todd Stephenson was a pimp for the pharmaceutical industry and lo and behold the deregulation agenda that erodes public health while enriching that pharmaceutical industry is upon us, as Bernard Hickey points out…

A shocking plan to deregulate pharmacies

Lanny Wong is shocked at Casey Costello’s plans in a Cabinet paper to deregulate pharmacies, allowing big corporates to expand massively & risking the creation of US-style hub-and-spoke ‘pill mills’

Lanny said she was shocked at the details revealed in full in Cabinet papersreleased proactively on Monday, particularly because there had been no consultation with the pharmacy sector, which would be upended by the removal of its current regulatory model. Costello barely mentioned the likely industry transformation in a release on Tuesday titled: ‘Medical Product Bill taking shape.’

Costello characterised the deregulation as “allowing for more flexibility and innovation that will improve safe access to medicines and healthcare,” but Lanny, who is the spokesperson for the Independent Community Pharmacy Group(ICPG), said the reforms risked creating a US-style sector dominated by big corporates, where turnover and profit are prioritised over the health of customers and communities served by pharmacists, who own the businesses and live in those communities.

…we are also seeing this privatisation of health with our GPs…

Patients worry about rise of corporate-owned GP clinics, but they say judge us ‘on the outcomes’

The number of doctors working in GP-owned practices has dropped from 73 percent in 2015 to 64 percent in 2022, while the number employed by corporate-owned clinics doubled in the same period to 14 percent.

Former head of the senior doctors’ union, Ian Powell, a long-time critic of corporate ownership, said the drive to boost profits for shareholders could create “perverse incentives”.

“What can happen is the pressure is on to reduce the time for patient consultation in order to increase the number of patients who are enrolled with the practice, in order to get more funding through the capitation system.”

…and the private contracts we are awarding the private health industry…

Health NZ told to give private hospitals 10-year outsourcing contracts

Private hospital outsourcing contracts tended to be short-term in the past, but Health NZ has been negotiating three-year panel agreements with private hospitals that guarantee high volumes of “low complexity” patients.

…this Government is strangling public health by purposely underfunding it while they hand out billions in tax cuts, landlord loopholes, military spending and the tobacco industry WHILE handing juicy contracts to the private health industry and you all went with it because the country had a temper tantrum at Jacinda.

The kid transitioning, that environmentalist, that academic, that Māori demanding the Treaty be honoured ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY!

Your enemy is who it has always been, the Corporations, the Billionaire Class, the Banks and the Polluters who mask their interests by playing to culture war spite and malice.

Get off your knees for Corporate interests Kiwi.

 

 

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