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Pharmacist Diagnostic Powers

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 9 May 2026

The podcast examines debates around pharmacist diagnostic powers, a tense exchange between Moana Maniapoto and Winston Peters, and Christopher Hipkins' immigration commentary, highlighting tensions in healthcare policy and political discourse.

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  • The other thing of this overall picture that sometimes you go, oh. Oh, that sounds like not a terrible idea, which is to try and help rural farmers, smaller pharmacies and chemists because they're being overtaken by, you know, big brother like chemist warehouse, those places that are offering free prescriptions. What they're not saying is they also had a solution to that before they came on board, which was free prescriptions are put in place by all the governments. They remove that. And now when removing that, there is going to be a sector of society who are not. not going to go to their local chemist or pharmacist they're going to go into their cbd and go to chemist warehouse or what are they called life uh whatever it is those those big brand ones that do it for you for anyway so they not only chewy you're wondering what the problem is they will have added to this problem by removing that free five dollar uh prescriptions for now all the people who can't afford to pay for those prescriptions so they go to the big box equivalent of the big box places and again they're looking for a solution to a problem on some levels that it seems that they have at least contributed to if not completely caused
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