The pharmac report gave options in terms of process. Eric Crampton (I know its the NZ Initiative, but they may have a point here) has focussed on Medsafe processes to speed up getting meds that work approved. Drug regulatory authorities do a lot of work on...
Please see my response above (5.1.2.2)
Pharmac had a review about the proces of funding medications. The Feb 2022 exec summary is here. The issue raised by Malcolm Mulholland in this instance is not about the funding as such, but hoe Pharmac sees patient advocates. And he has a point. I was at ...
Thanks!
Behind the paywall and I can't remember the free reader app, but my goodness this is heartbreaking. It's up there with something I heard in the Pharmac review process a couple of years back, about pharmac staff hands up voting to decide which lucky ...
I watched the whole thing. I agree to a point with what Marama Davidson says, but at one stage it all got too much for Peters - he actually didn't know the answers and most of what he was saying was bluster. He came in with an A4 sheet of paper, about ...
Thinking of the down South people - take care out there.
Yep. A young man in our family (voting Greens for employment rights and the future) has said most of his mates are voting ACT because Seymour doesn't give much of a sh*t and so it will be funny. I hope they never have to find out how deadly, ideologically ...
Well..IMO the Nats were (still are?) pretty keen on privatising NZ Hospitals/Health . I would think so - including undermining pharmac (which of course is not perfect). Rob Campbell's response is well-considered: So we have these monopoly producers ...
For me she entered the rogues gallery back in the 1990s. I've never got over her role in the expansion of of used car imports with bugger all minimum standards for exhaust pollution. If anything led to our rapidly increasing, ageing, polluting vehicle ...
Yep.. all good
Sure, I think you might have my real email address somewhere?
I signed up before I left Twitter and got my account nearly 2 weeks ago. I don't know how long the wait time is now. A person who has been on there 2 weeks (I think) gets an invite code that they give give to someone - let me know if you want one ;-)
I closed it permanently. I'm trying out BlueSky now, it lacks the NZ media input for now, but I think that will come.
The removal of GST on food should have been in place when GST was first introduced, most developed Countries in the Modern World do not put GST on food products... +1 a "pure" GST system is simply neo-liberal ideology. and anyway, there are exemptions ...
Clearly we are looking at a three headed monster on the right with National, Act and NZ First facing the possibility of some sort of accommodation between the parties. Any word on National gifting Epsom to David Seyour this time around (he's going to win ...
+100
Fuck that is just so tedious. Totally agree. The Nice tram went in so fast! And after living in Vienna (Euro365/year for bus/train/tram within the city limits) & and travelling around Europe car-free for eight years and bugger-all money, and trying to do ...
I hope she has a lot of love and support surrounding her while she rebuilds and recovers and continues to be awesome in whatever comes next.
I think you should go read it yourself again... slowly, and follow links, but I imagine it still won't match your preconceptions about what you think it should say.
"so if the responsibility is not predominantly parental then what is it?" Mickey has spelled it out in the post you're commenting on. I think the environment part of your "family environment" has a great deal to offer in improving kids lives. Over the ...
I do agree Bill English had a srong theme of social investment, not that he had time to do much about it. Nicola Willis was his researcher - I think she should go talk to her current leader if she wants the party to have another go at this if they're in ...
The rest of my sentence you quoted was "....i.e. parental responsibility and ignore the plight of the 2-year-old kid." Which explains the first part of the sentence (which I could have written more clearly, I agree). The interventions you describe are ...
" suggestions from NACT have often suggested state intervention in 'family life' including fining parents, removal of welfare rights, removal of children from families etc." None of those are interventions to improve the life of a child. Again - it's ...
"All the political parties agree upon this, where they differ is how to address it" I don't think all political parties agree. I think the NACT and other conservative parties believe parents should just be better and the state has no role in interfering in...
^^this
I get your point (and NAct got through because of that campaign for the right to not care about limits - even the most sensible). But lighbulbs and showerheads supported the idea that growth was not infinite. Pot holes does exactly the opposite - drive ...
"One of the things that should help is narratives" I read somewhere about the framing of climate disaster and being caused by pollution is easier to understand that talking about gasses and climate that people can't see. "pollution" also enables us to talk...
I pretty much agree with this, it's also the manipulation of the individual, each with little power, to solve a whole of society problem while at the same time the people with the ability to make the big changes are kicking it to the kerb.
An inconvenient truth: you can’t sell the green revolution to people who can’t afford it In the UK, but we have echoes here. Basically the middle-classes have to give up something, because the poor simply can't afford to - e.g. they need to buy the ...
"Remember there don't need to be any facts involved, just anonymous rumours that such and such has been doing whatever unsavoury thing." How many more? Off the top of my head... Colin Moyle Chris Carter David Cunliffe Clare Curran Meteria Turei All have ...
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