It’s just too much of a swamp to get trapped in.
Either you’re for David Seymour's debate on a reset, in which case some will call you a racist.
Or you’re against a select committee debate means the racists will call you a wokester.
Both of which are gross exaggerations of what’s really going down, so it’s best to just avoid it.
However, with the resignation of Dr Anthony Jordan from the Pharmac board, I find myself truly confused.
Dr Jordan quit over the Government's treaty directive. David Seymour told Pharmac it was inappropriate for the agency to keep considering the Treaty of Waitangi in the health sector.
Dr Jordan said he "could not with good conscience" continue to work for the agency following that direction.
But as an outsider, I can’t understand how the treaty was factored into Pharmac’s decisions.
If ever there was an agency that’s work was based on need, it’s Pharmac. Everybody gets sick, everybody needs medicine. Pharmac’s job is to decide what medicines work for New Zealand.
Both of which are gross exaggerations of what’s really going down, so it’s best to just avoid it.
However, with the resignation of Dr Anthony Jordan from the Pharmac board, I find myself truly confused.
Dr Jordan quit over the Government's treaty directive. David Seymour told Pharmac it was inappropriate for the agency to keep considering the Treaty of Waitangi in the health sector.
Dr Jordan said he "could not with good conscience" continue to work for the agency following that direction.
But as an outsider, I can’t understand how the treaty was factored into Pharmac’s decisions.
If ever there was an agency that’s work was based on need, it’s Pharmac. Everybody gets sick, everybody needs medicine. Pharmac’s job is to decide what medicines work for New Zealand.
While it’s true that Māori get some illnesses more than others it’s still a need. If that need is great enough it may get funded.
It’s a bit like the belief that the Māori Health Authority and Te Whatu Ora’s setup meant that Māori received priority in healthcare. It’s a factor to be looked out for in identifying need but at the end of the day nobody jumped the queue. Once your need is identified you join a raceless list based on priority.
But Dr Anthony Jordan has now resigned, and I wonder if he’s ever considered that this will have more effect on Māori seeking equitable healthcare results from Māori than David Seymour's war on Treaty principles.
Dr Jordan is, by the way, the partner of a Labour MP and his resignation smacks to me more of political virtue signalling than standing up for Māori in the healthcare system.
The question for Dr Jordan is: Was it better to be fighting for Māori inside the tent or sitting around outside the tent moaning and achieving nothing at all?
Andrew Dickens is a broadcaster with Newstalk ZB. - where this article was sourced.
4 comments:
You are correct. However in Pharmacs policy for prescription some folk had to be sicker than others to get the same drugs and that was simply based upon their ethnic background rather than their sickness.
Simply, if you are maori you got it, if your were not you had to be sicker that that maori to get it.....that isn't needs based policy.
Andrew, who cares, good riddance. Please don't encourage the far left radicals. He's better gone so he can join his whinger mates.
Andrew you state in your article “ It’s a factor to be looked out for in identifying need but at the end of the day nobody jumped the queue‘. Is this factually correct or what you believe? Because it was clear as day that if the Maori Health Authority had persisted doctors would have been selecting patients on race. For example, if I needed a coronary bypass and a Maori patient needed at the exact same; the latter would have been given priority. That is racist. This delivery of health services was causing a lot of angst among the medical profession; and ultimately it would have caused a lot of anger with New Zealanders. I heard the other day on the radio that a lot of Maori health problems are preventable. So if you are obese, drink too much, smoke, eat bad foods, and do not exercise; there is a lot you can do to improve your health.
Fact 1st
According to the agreement made between the crown and Maori in 1840. Maori ceased to exist as a political, collective entity. (Its called democracy. All of us equal under one law)
Fact 2nd
For the past 200 years Maori have assimilated physically into New Zealand society untill a true individual of Maori purity no longer exists.
Fact 3rd
Successive governments since 1840 have not adhered to the terms of the treaty and to this day, still believe part Maori are members of a political collective. That are superior to all and require special treatment.
Fact 4th.
When a life and death choice is made within our health system.
Part Māori trumps all others.
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