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[MaybeTop8]

This. Lester Levy was given license to assemble a hit squad to decimate the health system even further, to be able to manufacture multiple crises, at the cost of all New Zealanders, and sets up privatisation.

Straight out the neolib playbook.

Also very similar to the appalling treatment Americans are getting from DOGE

This is the neoliberal right. This is who they are. Of the rich, for the rich, by the rich.

'Bullets coming': Health NZ staff lay grievances against Levy's razor gang

Commissioner's cost-cutting adviser Brent Goldsack is understood to have told senior staff that executives would be in the gun, and he was doing the firing. Jonathan Milne investigates.

newsroom.co.nz

 

[MrFrankWhite]

This. Lester Levy was given license to assemble a hit squad to decimate the health system even further, to be able to manufacture multiple crises, at the cost of all New Zealanders, and sets up privatisation.

Straight out the neolib playbook.

Also very similar to the appalling treatment Americans are getting from DOGE

This is the neoliberal right. This is who they are. Of the rich, for the rich, by the rich.

'Bullets coming': Health NZ staff lay grievances against Levy's razor gang

Commissioner's cost-cutting adviser Brent Goldsack is understood to have told senior staff that executives would be in the gun, and he was doing the firing. Jonathan Milne investigates.

newsroom.co.nz

Ohh noo not the *check notes* high level executives

A number of sources have recounted that Goldsack told a finance meeting that, despite hundreds of accountants at the organisation, ‘I could cut my f***ing thumbs and fingers off and still have too many fingers to count the number of people on the call that can do accounting’.
At another meeting, sources say Goldsack told senior staff there were ‘bullets coming’ for executives, and he was firing them. Some of those executives were gone within weeks.
Newsroom has put these comments to Health NZ, asking if such language is acceptable to Dr Levy – and if not, does Goldsack still have his confidence?

Weak, mediocre bureaucrats crying because theyve been caught out. I dont see a frontline worker listed anywhere in that article.

 

[MaybeTop8]

@sup42 they're not hiding here either.

This is who the free speech union is. Racist and far right.

Christchurch on the eve of the anniversary

Six years from the deadly mass shooting, Christchurch was host to a public talk on "Race Marxism" and a disrupted Pride event

www.feijoadispatch.nz

 

[MaybeTop8]

Ohh noo not the *check notes* high level executives

A number of sources have recounted that Goldsack told a finance meeting that, despite hundreds of accountants at the organisation, ‘I could cut my f***ing thumbs and fingers off and still have too many fingers to count the number of people on the call that can do accounting’.
At another meeting, sources say Goldsack told senior staff there were ‘bullets coming’ for executives, and he was firing them. Some of those executives were gone within weeks.
Newsroom has put these comments to Health NZ, asking if such language is acceptable to Dr Levy – and if not, does Goldsack still have his confidence?

Weak, mediocre bureaucrats crying because theyve been caught out. I dont see a frontline worker listed anywhere in that article.

And a continuation of your faux macho reponses Frank

 

[MrFrankWhite]

And a continuation of your faux macho reponses Frank

Tone policing, just like the execs in the article.

 

[Noitall]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

NZ joins talks with the coalition of the willing in response to Ukraine

 

[MaybeTop8]

Tone policing, just like the execs in the article.

Hardly Frank. Bit of a snowflake response really

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Hardly Frank. Bit of a snowflake response really

Laughing at you because you have to resort tone policing instead of engaging with the content is being a snowflake? Wild take...

 

[Worried2Death]

@sup42 they're not hiding here either.

This is who the free speech union is. Racist and far right.

Christchurch on the eve of the anniversary

Six years from the deadly mass shooting, Christchurch was host to a public talk on "Race Marxism" and a disrupted Pride event

www.feijoadispatch.nz

What do you think @MrFrankWhite, is the Great Replacement real

 

[Mr Drag]

What do you think @MrFrankWhite, is the Great Replacement real

Maori were proven right about the great replacement!

 

[Worried2Death]

Maori were proven right about the great replacement!

Jews will not replace us with pakeha!

 

[Mr Drag]

Jews will not replace us with pakeha!

They filled the country with Pakeha so they could have majority rule over Maori in their own lands!

 

[Worried2Death]

They filled the country with Pakeha so they could have majority rule over Maori in their own lands!

Wait a minute, who's They?

 

[Worried2Death]

They filled the country with Pakeha so they could have majority rule over Maori in their own lands!

Did you say you're Cook Island Maori bro? How's it going up there with your new overlords, I mean business partners, is it a good deal?

 

[miket12]

Don't think I'd want one myself but the wife thinks she might. A BEV with it's own solar panels.

Toyota's FT-Me is a pocket-sized EV with a solar roof

Toyota has revealed the FT-Me, a compact BEV concept aimed at tackling urban mobility challenges. It blends premium styling with affordability for city driving.

www.drivencarguide.co.nz

 

[miket12]

What I find upsetting about this story is how this lady’s death will be turned into a political football by both sides of politics.

The government and their supporters will use this as an example of a “failed” hospital system under the previous government and why private hospitals should be used to reduce public waiting lists.

While the opposition, and their supporters, will say that cuts to the health system to meet cost saving targets will only lead to more outcomes like this.

And, in the meantime, a family has lost a member to something which could have been avoided. And that’s just sad.

Woman dies after three-day delay for surgery to fix her broken leg

The 74-year-old's leg was broken after she was knocked over in a park by a dog.

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

[Inruin]

What I find upsetting about this story is how this lady’s death will be turned into a political football by both sides of politics.

The government and their supporters will use this as an example of a “failed” hospital system under the previous government and why private hospitals should be used to reduce public waiting lists.

While the opposition, and their supporters, will say that cuts to the health system to meet cost saving targets will only lead to more outcomes like this.

And, in the meantime, a family has lost a member to something which could have been avoided. And that’s just sad.

Woman dies after three-day delay for surgery to fix her broken leg

The 74-year-old's leg was broken after she was knocked over in a park by a dog.

www.nzherald.co.nz

Not sure that it will. There have been several examples of deaths from hospital waiting lists, EDs, misdiagnosed etc reported over the last year and a bit stemming from the previous 3 or 4 years prior to that. I'm sure old mate disinformationtop8 would be jumping all over it if it was from this governments term

 

[John Nick]

What I find upsetting about this story is how this lady’s death will be turned into a political football by both sides of politics.

The government and their supporters will use this as an example of a “failed” hospital system under the previous government and why private hospitals should be used to reduce public waiting lists.

While the opposition, and their supporters, will say that cuts to the health system to meet cost saving targets will only lead to more outcomes like this.

And, in the meantime, a family has lost a member to something which could have been avoided. And that’s just sad.

Woman dies after three-day delay for surgery to fix her broken leg

The 74-year-old's leg was broken after she was knocked over in a park by a dog.

www.nzherald.co.nz

As you know Mike I was in Tauranga hospital recently and waited all day for CTs and MRIs and Xrays and didn't get to a ward until after 10pm. No food or water was offered after I was admitted around 9am.
Medical staff as usual were brilliant and efficient
Unfortunately the toilets and bathrooms were absolutely filthy. Never seen it like that before. Rubbish bins were overflowing.
Seems like hygiene has been compromised from my experience
However that was just the one area that I was located in.