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The day our health system crumbled
TL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:
* Decades of underfunding, a botched organisational reform, massive emigration of skilled staff to Australia, Covid and the usual winter flu cases have morphed into a systemic crisis in the health system, which is overwhelming a new Government still thinking too much is spent on health and not enough given back in tax cuts;
* Our economy is a housing market with bits tacked on and now our political economy is too, with property business owners and building materials firms…
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