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# Letter to the Editor: Healthcare Prejudice
- URL: https://goodoil.news/letter-to-the-editor-healthcare-prejudice/
- Published: 2021-07-04T00:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-03T19:11:02.000Z
- Author: Letter to the Editor
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

Dear Editor

I ended up in hospital in 2018 because I could not afford to see a doctor. Seeing a dentist is impossible. Cancer of the mouth then becomes a real risk from rotting teeth.

What is NOT known but what is commonly assumed, is that if one is unemployed you are on the dole. NOT SO. I have just had to remonstrate with Westpac on this very issue but I was told I was lying.  
If your spouse earns $44K or thereabouts then there is **no entitlement** to anything apart from accommodation supplement.

The woman at Westpac told me that was nothing and I said that is what we live on. She replied I can’t see how you can live on that.

There is a whole cohort of men 55 plus who fall into his trap. But there has been a displacement of men and they are treated as disposable.   
I would love to be working but the barrier to entry is gender and age bias by HR.

In the Wokus Pocus of hearing people’s “voices”, middle-aged male voices don’t count – male pale and stale – all the prejudices in one sentence!

I sometimes think that the new socialism is predominantly a female thing.

There are also women in this trap too and they got some traction in articles during Covid but it has fallen by the wayside.

Signed

Graham

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