I have a great deal of misgiving about the attempt of a couple to claim under ACC for the accident of their daughter’s birth. Their daughter’s spina bifida (open spine at birth) was not discovered on ultrasound and, as the parents insist that they would have aborted her, if they had known, they are trying [...]

Well, maybe not. It seems like it is suddenly going to get a whole lot more expensive. Trevor Mallard seems to think that the government is fear-mongering. He, along with Brian Fallow and Rod Oram, seem to think that the ACC blowout is merely an accounting problem, a combination of accounting standards and poor investment [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. (MacDoctor definition)
Congratulations on the Dominion Post for getting two Spam Journalism awards in a row on the same day. 
Nats set to cut science budget
National is set to slash funding for agriculture and food research, dumping Labour’s $700 million Fast [...]

No, not the Dire Straits song, the strange request for extra government funding by the pharmacists for extra services to clients. 
Pharmacy Guild chief executive Annabel Young said pharmacists wanted to be given the right to help patients in managing chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and asthma through health counselling and guidance on prescribed medicine use. [...]

I see that Tracey Watkins at the Dominion Post is still rabbiting on about the small increase in electorate funding for Maori and other large-area electorates. She asks “Why should Nats get away with what Labour couldn’t?” I can’t really answer her question, because I have no real idea with what she thinks National is [...]

It’s official – we have the worst access to heart surgery in the first world, according to this article! $6 billion dollars in extra health funding and we still don’t have first world access to life-saving operations. And why is this?
Staff shortages in the health sector, especially in intensive care unit nursing, were fingered as [...]