Steven Mark Gaskell: Whanau owned welfare inc. misses the gravy train
Oh no, the accountability monster has arrived and it doesn’t speak fluent bureaucracy fluff. Apparently, since the dissolution of Te Aka Whai Ora (the Māori Health Authority), some providers are finding life a little less... profitable. Gone are the golden days when identity tick boxes opened the funding floodgates. Now, it’s all back to the big, bad world of open market tendering you know, that pesky thing where competence might actually matter.
