Politics 🗳️ NZ Politics

[Kaos A.D.]

Try going back through to the post @MrFrankWhite was answering and the posts before that and you'll see the whole discussion was on 3 Waters..... if you didn't want to discuss 3 Waters, why did you decide to join in on the discussion on it? Perhaps it's not me who has to "re-read" things!!!

Oh so that makes it all right now .... As I said I was replying to what he said, stop making excuses you know exactly what he was referring to

 

[miket12]

The privatisation of NZ Health continues apace from this corrupt neoliberal ideological far right government.

My statement is 100% factual.

Health NZ under fire for secrecy over private hospital contracts

The public deserve answers says a hospital trust chair says, as Health NZ refuses to say how much it's paying.

www.rnz.co.nz

How long do you think waiting list should get if private hospitals didn't do elective surgeries? How many heart and cancer operations do you think should be put off so the public hospital theaters can be used for hip or stomach stappling operations being sent to private hospitals? Tough questions I'm glad I don't need to answer.

In a perfect world, it would all take place in public hospitals but governments (especially the last and this one) seem to intent on mucking around with the health system (i.e. dis-establishing DHB's and then re-establishing them) and massively underfunding areas to suit their voter base.

Back in the days of Helen Clark, my dad was sent to a private hospital to receive a triple bypass after he had a heart attack and was firstly admitted into Middlemore. Most of his recovery was at the private hospital post-surgery until he was transferred back to Greenlane. The silly old bugger was supposed to be on bed rest but got up, unplugged his monitoring equipment, pushed that across the room and then his bed and plugged himself back in. Why? Because the other side of the room had a view of One Tree Hill and he's original side was only looking at other buildings. As they say... "They don't make them like they used too!!!"

Disclosure.... my wife had both her two cancer operations and most of her chemo done privately paid for by a work-based health insurance scheme and the remainer of her chemo and radiotherapy through the public system. Her surgeons worked exclusively in the private system (St Marks Breast Centre) while the oncologists worked both in the public and private systems. She was discharged quite quickly from the private hospitals because the insurance would only cover it to a certain point while other women she knows of with similar cancers stayed longer in hospitals through the public system.

 

[Worried2Death]

Oh so that makes it all right now .... As I said I was replying to what he said, stop making excuses you know exactly what he was referring to

He was inferring that māori were stone age primitives with no plumbing, so we should all be grateful to the Romans.

 

[Kaos A.D.]

He was inferring that māori were stone age primitives with no plumbing, so we should all be grateful to the Romans.

Oh how convenient... So just a little dig at māori that we should all be grateful for being colonized or we would still be living in huts with no central water heating... So how often is this little colonizer trope going to come up, when you have nothing else to offer

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

He was inferring that māori were stone age primitives with no plumbing, so we should all be grateful to the Romans.

They were resourceful however - kaitangata was a good source of protein
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[Worried2Death]

They were resourceful however - kaitangata was a good source of protein
.

You are what you eat

 

[Kaos A.D.]

You are what you eat

meat and three veg