EPISODE · Jun 19, 2026 · 44 MIN
Dr David Galler & economist Dr Bill Rosenberg "The best private healthcare your tax dollar can buy?"
from #BHN Big Hairy News · host Big Hairy Network
How can we simultaneously have "record investment in health", while feeling like we're falling behind? Why will anything less than an additional $1.4B in the Health NZ budget move health backward? How can it be that unmet need, population growth, and inflation are not properly accounted for in our official budget numbers?Kaitiaki Hauora is a new organisation made up of many groups with an interest in public health, rallying around the well-proven but oft-ignored idea that healthcare privatisation is an expensive, inefficient, and inequitable alternative to universal public healthcare.The Frontline speaks with former intensive care doctor, Dr David Galler, and economist Dr Bill Rosenberg of Kaitiaki Hauora about the tricky world of healthcare spending and the NZ economy.
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