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Ryan Bridge: Will we ever have enough money to spend on health?
Here's a question for you this morning - How much will ever be enough to spend on health?
The answer is there will never be enough, so you got to make do with what you got.
At least that is what Health New Zealand is trying to do.
At the moment, we spend $30 billion bucks a year, that's just taxpayer money on health. It is middle of the road for the OECD in terms of percentage of GDP comparisons.
According to Health New Zealand we're ahead of the likes of the UK, Canada and Sweden, but we're behind France, Switzerland and Germany.
I mean, really, what does all this mean?
Whether that spending…
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