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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/5646...rn-doctors
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Easily fixed. Make a regulation that says they can only charge out those drugs at cost when they bill patients.
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(20-06-2025, 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...
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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...
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(20-06-2025, 06:40 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: 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...
Surely its blindingy obvious that, when people - anyone,even a politician - need medical help, then that help is given. Immediately, no conditions whatsoever.
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When the focus is politics over people, and the posters are well and healthy, it is hard to understand just how desperate someone on the waiting list can get. Sometimes life experience beats passion, lol...
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(21-06-2025, 11:04 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: When the focus is politics over people, and the posters are well and healthy, it is hard to understand just how desperate someone on the waiting list can get. Sometimes life experience beats passion, lol...
Yeah...maybe you have to be actually old in order to properly understand that.
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