So the Government is making noises about inviting more private investment >into trying to solve the chronic problems with the public healthcare
system.
Nobody wants to become like the US system, where private companies >(particularly health insurers) call the shots. If you dont believe how
bad it is, just look at the massive wave of public sympathy for the guy
who murdered that health insurer CEO.
And heres another instance: look at what happened when the COVID-19
pandemic hit. In the US, it led to massive layoffs of healthcare
personnel. How could that be? you may well ask: surely in a public health >emergency, healthcare workers would be needed more than ever?
Ah, but at the time there was a lucrative market going in these financial >instruments called health bonds. They were basically making money off >people going in for elective surgeries, by investing in the surgical >facilities to provide those surgeries.
But when the pandemic hit, suddenly most of those elective surgeries were >cancelled in favour of repurposing health facilities for emergency
response. And so the health-bond market collapsed, and so did the
companies dependent on that money. And so the healthcare staff they were >employing lost their jobs.
On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:37:46 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro ><ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
So the Government is making noises about inviting more private investment >>into trying to solve the chronic problems with the public healthcare >>system.
Nobody wants to become like the US system, where private companies >>(particularly health insurers) call the shots. If you dont believe how
bad it is, just look at the massive wave of public sympathy for the guy
who murdered that health insurer CEO.
And heres another instance: look at what happened when the COVID-19 >>pandemic hit. In the US, it led to massive layoffs of healthcare
personnel. How could that be? you may well ask: surely in a public health >>emergency, healthcare workers would be needed more than ever?
Ah, but at the time there was a lucrative market going in these financial >>instruments called health bonds. They were basically making money off >>people going in for elective surgeries, by investing in the surgical >>facilities to provide those surgeries.
But when the pandemic hit, suddenly most of those elective surgeries were >>cancelled in favour of repurposing health facilities for emergency >>response. And so the health-bond market collapsed, and so did the
companies dependent on that money. And so the healthcare staff they were >>employing lost their jobs.
That is exactly the sort of race to the bottom that ActNZ1stNat want -
the people at the top of those privatised organisations make huge
money that can be encouraged to be donated to the Atlas Network . . . Ruibbish, polical rhetoric and no facts.
On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:37:46 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro ><ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
So the Government is making noises about inviting more private investment >>into trying to solve the chronic problems with the public healthcare >>system.
Nobody wants to become like the US system, where private companies >>(particularly health insurers) call the shots. If you dont believe how
bad it is, just look at the massive wave of public sympathy for the guy
who murdered that health insurer CEO.
And heres another instance: look at what happened when the COVID-19 >>pandemic hit. In the US, it led to massive layoffs of healthcare
personnel. How could that be? you may well ask: surely in a public health >>emergency, healthcare workers would be needed more than ever?
Ah, but at the time there was a lucrative market going in these financial >>instruments called health bonds. They were basically making money off >>people going in for elective surgeries, by investing in the surgical >>facilities to provide those surgeries.
But when the pandemic hit, suddenly most of those elective surgeries were >>cancelled in favour of repurposing health facilities for emergency >>response. And so the health-bond market collapsed, and so did the
companies dependent on that money. And so the healthcare staff they were >>employing lost their jobs.
That is exactly the sort of race to the bottom that ActNZ1stNat want -
the people at the top of those privatised organisations make huge
money that can be encouraged to be donated to the Atlas Network . . .
So the Government is making noises about inviting more private investment >into trying to solve the chronic problems with the public healthcare
system.
Nobody wants to become like the US system, where private companies >(particularly health insurers) call the shots. If you dont believe how
bad it is, just look at the massive wave of public sympathy for the guy
who murdered that health insurer CEO.
And heres another instance: look at what happened when the COVID-19
pandemic hit. In the US, it led to massive layoffs of healthcare
personnel. How could that be? you may well ask: surely in a public health >emergency, healthcare workers would be needed more than ever?
Ah, but at the time there was a lucrative market going in these financial >instruments called health bonds. They were basically making money off >people going in for elective surgeries, by investing in the surgical >facilities to provide those surgeries.
But when the pandemic hit, suddenly most of those elective surgeries were >cancelled in favour of repurposing health facilities for emergency
response. And so the health-bond market collapsed, and so did the
companies dependent on that money. And so the healthcare staff they were >employing lost their jobs.
On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:37:46 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
So the Government is making noises about inviting more private investment
into trying to solve the chronic problems with the public healthcare
system.
Nobody wants to become like the US system, where private companies
(particularly health insurers) call the shots. If you dont believe how
bad it is, just look at the massive wave of public sympathy for the guy
who murdered that health insurer CEO.
And heres another instance: look at what happened when the COVID-19
pandemic hit. In the US, it led to massive layoffs of healthcare
personnel. How could that be? you may well ask: surely in a public health
emergency, healthcare workers would be needed more than ever?
Ah, but at the time there was a lucrative market going in these financial instruments called health bonds. They were basically making money off people going in for elective surgeries, by investing in the surgical facilities to provide those surgeries.
But when the pandemic hit, suddenly most of those elective surgeries were cancelled in favour of repurposing health facilities for emergency
response. And so the health-bond market collapsed, and so did the
companies dependent on that money. And so the healthcare staff they were employing lost their jobs.
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