Trump Health Claims

You can see them try that one on. You know what they can take a running jump, can't they? IRD and Treasury can take a running jump because you know what would be a better idea than raising taxes, hiking up the GST, hiking up the capital gains tax. What would be a better idea is if we cut spending like, for example, the thing we've been talking about on this show and last, the $300,000 given to some project to watch kids paint pictures. Text on that evening, Heather. Thanks for trying to get MB and Auckland Uni on to tell us how our $300,000... thousand dollars was wisely spent. Today I also got to see the photo of the three by two meter kumara patch that we all paid twenty five thousand to twenty five thousand dollars per square meter for. Maybe the head honcho Nicola Willis can tell us how this is good use of taxpayers dollars. Craig quite right. So before they come at us asking for a little bit more of the old goods and services tax I'd go how many kumara patches you paid for today mate? Just out of interest how many how many kids did we get to do the finger painting of the trees yeah? Did we um Did we pay for any of those whale songs that we needed to play to the trees to see if it helped the trees? Yeah. How about you start cutting the wasteful spending on that and then we can talk about maybe raising taxes. Now, we'll just put that one away because that's just made us disproportionately angry that people could be this stupid. Oh, you know what? Can I just say I'm always surprised that this beautiful country has created enough morons. Like somehow we have managed to create enough morons. to actually through the whole food chain manage to make that payment possible don't you think that's a remarkable thing like first of all there's the moron who was like you know what I want to do I want money to watch kids paint pictures of trees and see if that helps with cowrie dieback. I know that's what I, that moron, that moron was born and came up with that idea. Then you had the moron that's their boss who was like, do you know what, that's a good idea actually, you should actually apply for that money. That moron too. Then the moron whose desk that arrived at at EMBI where they were like, look, hey, there's a request for some money to get the kids to paint the trees. That moron who went, yeah, that's a great idea, tick. There's a whole list and by the way it won't... It won't be that efficient. Like there will be at least about four or five people at the University of Auckland and likely about seven at MB. So there's at least a dozen morons that we have somehow managed to breed in this country who are stupid enough to think that was a good idea. remarkable remarkable anyway from stupid ideas to great ideas there is a proposal to allow pharmacists to hand out more kids medicines without needing to go to the GP and I am on board with this because we we need to stop the GPs being the only gatekeepers when things are really obvious and you could go in and go look there's a cut it's infected oh here's some antibiotic cream like you don't I'm not saying GPs need to but you know what I mean like it's obvious you don't always need the GP to people to do that. Health New Zealand has come up with this proposal. So what it's considering is allowing the pharmacists to take a look at the kit and go, yep, this call, I'm going to give you some PAMOL for that. PAMOLs, ibuprofen, oral rehydration, common conditions like scabies, head lice, conjunctivitis. Can you actually believe that you have to go to the GP and go, yes, look at that. Yes, that would be a case of head lice. Could you please give us something prescription for that? one time on the conjunctivitis one time it was a weekend and doesn't it suck when the kids get sick at the weekend like that really rips your undies eh because it's it sucks all the time because you love them and and you don't want them to get sick but at the weekends it really sucks and this one weekend the little one who would have been I reckon I reckon less than a year at this stage, maybe 10 months, came down with pussy eyes. It is clearly a case of conjunctivitis, right? So pussy eyes, both eyes, which means it's now, it's bacterial. So, and it was a Saturday. What do you do? You can't go to the GP because the GPs have weekends, don't they? So went to the emergency, sat in the emergency, not starship, don't worry, I'm not that kind of a parent, went to like one of the white cross ones or whatever that you have to pay for. So went and sat there probably three hours, probably four hours on a Saturday afternoon just so the GP could go oh yes. Yes, Mrs Jeopardy C. Allen, you are in fact correct. This would be a case of conjunctivitis. Let me give you some eye drops. Yes, those would be the eye drops I went to the pharmacy for in the afternoon and asked if they could just give them to me. But I had to go through the whole schmozzle of three hours or four hours and waste the doctor's time because they didn't need to do that. And now if this proposal goes through, you don't have to do that. Isn't that brilliant? Oh, and for the adults also, very common uncomplicated UTIs they'll be able to do with that in emergency birth. birth control as well as be able to give it to you. How good is it that the pharmacists can be adults? 16 away from seven.