#NZpol , this is one of the best explanations of the issues going on in our health system right now. What happened? We properly staffed medical care, and it turns out we didn't budget for that. 6 months of obsfucation come down to this. And we could fix it with additional cash, i.e. taxes.
Analysis - A single page from the 450 released on Tuesday provides cut-through on what has gone wrong.
But hey this was obvious in the initial days and Marc Daalder pretty quickly wrote a piece on it back then that confirmed this. Yet the government lies crowded the space and they marched on irrespective of fact checks and the like. Reason doesn't matter with these people - that's the real issue here
To fix this we have two choices: freeze/cut staff & services, or match the budget to the services we claim to have. Our government has chosen the former. We are going to have fewer nurses, fewer surgeries, fewer public health services. We can choose the latter. Funding services with tax revenue.