Dr Eric Crampton: Why are our health system priorities so out of whack, and officials so obsessed with McDonald’s?

You can learn a lot about a household’s priorities, or an agency’s priorities, when budgets tighten.

For the past few months, we have heard a lot about how the health system has been cut to the bone. Radio New Zealand piously reports every document leaked from the National Public Health Service (NPHS) showing how terrible the NPHS thinks that any cuts to the NPHS might be.