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Private hospitals using publicly funded cancer drugs will widen inequities - Lilith7 - 19-06-2025
Another move towards privatising health.
"Transitional access' comes into effect on July 1st & will mean that private patients already receiving treatment , or about to start it, with a newly funded medicine won't have to move to publicly funded for 12 months.
The association of salaried medical specialists which represents 6,500 senior hospitals & dentists said its members working in oncology & haemotology had 'significant concenrs' that this would widen inequities for patients.'
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564620/private-hospitals-use-of-publicly-funded-cancer-drugs-will-widen-inequities-warn-doctors
RE: Private hospitals using publicly funded cancer drugs will widen inequities - Oh_hunnihunni - 20-06-2025
Easily fixed. Make a regulation that says they can only charge out those drugs at cost when they bill patients.
RE: Private hospitals using publicly funded cancer drugs will widen inequities - Lilith7 - 20-06-2025
(Yesterday, 08:56 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Easily fixed. Make a regulation that says they can only charge out those drugs at cost when they bill patients.
Yeah....I can see them doing that...
RE: Private hospitals using publicly funded cancer drugs will widen inequities - Oh_hunnihunni - 20-06-2025
I'm knee deep in an argument on instagram on the Greens page about private hospitals. Surprising me how many posters think politics comes before people getting their surgeries more quickly. Good debate though. Very polite, lol...