Labour criticises the National-led government's Pharmac funding announcement, accusing it of misleading claims about fiscal constraints and failing to deliver on access to essential medicines, especially cancer treatments, while highlighting Labour's record of expanding access.
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Yeah, I don't know if you're familiar with that term, but basically it means that they were they were stopping spending on maintaining their buildings and their um you know all the equipment and that kind of thing, but because all the pressure was on them just to provide those emergency services that you know everywhere you know you just can't do without. So you find you just find you dictate shortcuts in order to find the money. Um, and I think you know, you could you you know you you've you've quoted it, you've talked about it yourself just then that this government is saying the same thing. They want to reduce the size of government, and um, and so you know as I mentioned that cabinet paper that I mentioned shows exactly the same thing that they're not funding the full costs of health, instead they're trying to squeeze more out of it, and that will just lead to more of what we've already got.
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system is underfunded and deteriorating
#BHN Research shows that health funding is falling well short of what we needgovernment deception about health funding
Release: $1.7b for no increase in access to medicineSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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