Undercurrents: Who broke NZ's health system? Rob Campbell and Justine Sachs talk with Ollie Neas
New Zealand's health system is supposed to be based on a simple idea: care based on need, not wealth. But today that model is under growing pressure as senior doctors warn of a "death spiral" – one that could leave NZ with a two-tier system, where wealth determines who gets treated and when. So who broke New Zealand’s healthcare system? What is replacing it? And who is fighting to save it?
We unpack these questions and more in the latest episode of Undercurrents, featuring Rob Campbell, the former chair of Te Whatu Ora, and Justine Sachs, a union organiser in the health sector – in…
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