Health NZ cites financial deficits.
Summarised by Centrist
Midwives are alarmed by Health NZ’s proposal to cut nearly all maternity support roles, including disbanding the Starting Well programme. “It’s an expedient way to cut jobs without real care,” said Alison Eddy, NZ College of Midwives CEO. Health NZ cites financial deficits as a driver but plans to merge maternity with older persons’ services, sparking widespread concern.
“A comprehensive and consistent view of the flood risks across the country.”
“Serious and repeated failures...”
“Some children as young as 12 were commenced on puberty blockers, with others on testosterone, without adequate documentation of assessments or monitoring.
“The next move looks more likely to be up than down.”
The “Burmese Way to Socialism” may have failed as an economic experiment, but as a statist mechanism for perpetual military dictatorship, it has proven to be a devastating success.
This is what I’d call the government spending spiral – a self-reinforcing doom loop where each dollar spent justifies even more spending. PepsiCo alone spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep their highly processed junk food eligible for food stamps.
We can’t recapture the $16 trillion wasted on a false crisis. Sunk costs are, alas, sunk. The one sliver of good news is that it appears the climate change neuroses have finally started to subside.
