One is that they are woefully misinformed and living in a fantasy land. The other is that they are intentionally mangling the truth for political purposes. He also referred to cuts in the amounts paid to locums and how this was also affecting doctor availability. Luxon’s repeated claim there was 14 levels of management in health has shown what should probably be described as the intentional mangling of the truth. What is really weird is that the tax collected from HTPs was only $3.62 million in 2022 and $5.97 million in 2023.

Source: Stuff July 30, 2024 21:26 UTC