The Woman who threw state tenants onto the Streets using false meth standards is now running our public health – yay???

ByMartyn Bradbury

Former Deputy PM Paula Bennett appointed Pharmac board chair

Former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett has been appointed as the new board chair of the drug-buying agency Pharmac.

Associate Health Minister David Seymour announced the appointment on Sunday morning.

“Pharmac is a critical part of New Zealand’s health system and plays a significant role in ensuring that Kiwis have the best possible access to medicines,” Seymour said.

“As chair, Paula will lead the Pharmac board in their role of managing the pharmaceutical schedule and driving greater efficiencies and access to medicine for New Zealanders.”

Seymour said he was confident Bennett had the right leadership and decision-making skills for the role.

“Paula brings a wealth of experience to this role, with extensive experience in governance and organisational change.”

ACT secretly want to privatise Pharmac the way all far right acolytes want to privatise the common good. As a young libertarian, David Seymour on a radical far right economic youth camp once sang a song to Milton Friedman thanking him for privatising public education.

I’m not kidding…

…so Paula is their free market real estate pimp stormtrooper who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near public health.

Here she was recently attacking State Tenants (again)…

Kāinga Ora tenants who don’t deserve state homes should be evicted – Paula Bennett

It is all about your rights instead of acknowledging that you also have responsibilities.

It may be a small percentage of Kāinga Ora tenants that are making other people’s lives hell but those that are should be dealt with swiftly and in the best interest of others.

It is obvious that they should be evicted for the safety of neighbours but they should also be evicted because they don’t respect the property and there are plenty of others who will.

…Paula’s legacy is one of political puppetry and malice.

Her draconian attacks on welfare recipients was only possible because she herself had been a solo mother.

Paula was the ultimate political poacher turned game keeper.

She could push welfare eugenics because she could always cite her own experience as some sort of justification.

She released personal information to shame beneficiary critics and put into place a sanction regime that saw thousands go hungry.

Her most shameful moment in politics was her championing of throwing state tenants out onto the street for meth contamination in state housing.

Ignoring the scientific evidence and refusing to implement Housing NZs own policy. Paula sought headlines attacking state tenants whose houses tested positive, and enabled the needless spending of $120million to decontaminate houses that didn’t pose a health risk.

She threw thousands of beneficiaries onto the streets in the middle of a housing crisis.

Her ruthlessness masquerading as ‘I know best’ damaged NZs poor, she didn’t alleviate it.

After the enormous damage she has caused State Tenants, where the Christ does this sanctimonious hypocrite get off joyfully wanting more state tenants thrown onto the street.

So she’s now running public health.

Yay.

As for the extra Phamac funding that David Seymour announced…

...they are barely funding extra medicine, most of it is keeping up with existing costs!

Paula Bennett is the last person who should be anywhere near public health.

 

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29 Comments

  1. Who do I have to sleep with to get a highly paid position like this? Hell if Paula can do it( over a very long period of time) surely I can.

  2. What she did to Hurimoana Dennis, kaumatua at Te Puema marae, was disgraceful. There was no good reason for it. Here was a man with a successful hands-on programme of feeding the hungry, providing homes for the homeless, and helping the unemployed into jobs, and doing what she was seemingly unable to. She publicly shafted him. She then seemingly tried to blame one of her lackeys, but nobody, she or some other deplorable, should have swimming in the sewers.

    Broken the confidentiality of WINZ clients and said she’d do so again. Her apparent lack of professionalism makes her unsuitable to lead any significant body, IMO.

    1. Some more detail about this enchanted being.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Bennett
      …Bennett faced criticism in enacting welfare reform during her first and second terms in government, especially around her previous use of government support programs. Scrutiny came from both members of parliament and from people on government incomes. In particular, the Training Incentive Allowance (TIA) was abolished under her leadership, after she had received this allowance herself as a student,[16] and the requirement for single parents in receipt of the domestic purposes benefit was changed, with beneficiaries having to look for part-time work when their child turned six instead of eighteen.[17] Bennett had her first child at 17 and was at times on a domestic purposes benefit. In response to criticisms, Bennett said that times were different 25 years later, and that beneficiaries get more (in 2012) than they did when she was in similar need.[18]
      She is an example of a successful Maori woman to follow, according to many. The ones who are eaten up by materialism.

      Some actual good programs that sound really good.
      https://trowgroup.co.nz/project/manaaki-tangata-programme/
      https://trowgroup.co.nz/about-us/
      https://trowgroup.co.nz/projects/

      Did Paula find fault with these? What did she put in place instead?

    1. Watching the slide over winter will perhaps fill the gap if we don’t get skiable snow.
      As for the ‘winter of our discon-tent’ don’t mention that in the hearing of the ordinary people who can’t get a place to live, and their resort isn’t the Gold Coast or Hawaii (Te Puke), they resort to – beg, borrow or buy – a tent.

  4. The ace ladder puller & Bennie basher trained by yank Paula Rebstock, ex party girl who threatened lawyers immediately when some of her old Taupo drinking buddies were going to spill the beans. An instinctive dobber–as Snow White points out above. Just who the country does not need in charge of sensitive health and medication issues.

  5. I guess appointing Paula fits with Seymour’s desire to make dying as easy as possible? Someone will be in for a good payday however the country’s health system will suffer.

    1. Wrong again Bonnie. Seymour’s desire, IMO, is to make New Zealand a third-world country run by ACT, and he’s on track. Hungry kids, bureaucrats diagnosing childhood ailments, homelessness due to fecklessness, underpaid police being driven out of the country, welfare recipient stasi, and this horrible female in charge of Pharmac.

      Did you know that lots of the folk depending on good Pharmac outcomes are quite frail people ? People with disabilities; children already experiencing third-world illnesses; others going quietly, or otherwise, mad, not necessarily through any fault of their own; people without much money and no work or insurance schemes to see them through hard times ?

      Doubtless some of the Pharmac board will be professionally qualified people. They deserve better than Bennett, but more importantly so does this country. How we treat our most vulnerable people is a reasonable indication of our values, and Seymour’s values, IMO, are running on a bigger deficit than
      the national debt which this lot blame for their own sociopathic shortcomings, IMO.

  6. A song to sing to Paula Bennett – ‘Honesty’ by Billy Joel.
    Here it is with heartfelt and damning words.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3hfZpDnbHI

    For all we know the dancing and acting in the next clip is what goes on in National Party government serious decision meetings – The Aggie Song scene 5/10! After that stop when you find it distasteful. But you have to be fit for prancing like that, and it seems that Gnashional pollies at ‘leadership’ and ‘management’ level are fit for nothing and that includes women trying to better men at their job.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O9FIRPJRXc&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqrS2O7ovE_zc0cDiek5Hleu&index=5

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  10. David Seymour has seriously underestimated the severe dislike of this awful woman. He’s been much too clever for his own good this time. This is obvious cronyism of the absolute kind as people are actually relying on this terrible woman to keep them alive. This appointment is the biggest mistake of Seymour’s political career and he will live to regret it

    1. I beg to differ. Seymour has his own handy scapegoat to blame when the inevitable occurs. What’s more, solid, sound, experienced health professionals may well demur at the thought of functioning under this awful woman, resulting in low calibre flunkies replacing them.

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