I wonder when NZ will move away from the quasi-free-market-but-funded-by-the-government system in health (and education). It leads to outcomes like this which are clearly inefficient. I’d like to see more centralisation.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    1 year ago

    Haha it may make sense but it’s not a vote winner. Your average voter will think spending hundreds of millions on WINZ reform just to make it more complex (now we need a bank account from everyone in the country so they can be paid from two sources) is not a good idea, and the right will for sure be telling people no one will work and the economy will collapse even though trials overseas have not had this effect.

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      1 year ago

      True, true. I think we spend millions on pointless cosmetic winz remodels pretty much every time we get a new govt, but people never notice.