Richard Prebble: Is the health system collapsing?

When I was in Labour Youth, a veteran MP explained that if the government owned bakeries, every time someone found a hair in a loaf of bread the government could fall.

Should the Greens ever establish their KiwiMart, television news will have a permanent slot for government supermarket horror stories.

We have a monolithic, Soviet-style, government-owned hospital system employing tens of thousands and treating hundreds of thousands of patients.