Let’s look on the bright side. The people voted this way (quite significantly) so they must be seeing something positive there. I already know all the downsides so let’s discuss the upsides.
Let’s look on the bright side. The people voted this way (quite significantly) so they must be seeing something positive there. I already know all the downsides so let’s discuss the upsides.
I believe Labour has become incredibly racist. Prioritising people for healthcare on the basis of race is literally and explicitly against the Geneva Convention. The plan to grant an unelected ethnic group disproportionate control over NZ’s drinking water was so cartoonishly evil it’s hard for me to fathom. One of the most patently anti-democratic and racist things I’ve ever seen in politics in NZ.
I look forward to dismantling all race based policies, and focusing on need instead. Poor people need our help.
Literally none of that is true though.
No need to lie about it. It’s all out in the open. We can see for ourselves. If you like the policy just own it. You’re a racist and you believe healthcare should be given to people in part on the basis of race.
Racial background been a factor in health decisions for ages in certain situations. Just like age, weight, sex and smoking are. To be clear we are talking about situations where all else is equal between patients, then racial background based risk factors are included to decide who gets surgery first.
I absolute believe clinically significant factors should be a part of health decisions, regardless of what they are.
Ethnicity has only ever been used as a data point for the best health outcomes. Some diseases progress differently in different ethnicities. It has never been used to prioritise healthcare in NZ. The former is fine. The latter is an actual war crime.
Either way, an argument of “it’s not new” isn’t a defence of systemic racial discrimination for healthcare.
The RNZ article outlines really well why that Herald article you posted was, at most, very misleading. However, to summarize:
The fact that it isn’t new should tell you that this isn’t something that has suddenly sprung up under Labour. It is a known fact that racial background affects health outcomes. There absolutely is systemic racial discrimination in healthcare. It’s just not in the direction you think it is.
Lol
Shut down by the facts yet again. You’re having a bit of a time on here lately, aren’t you?
Nope. That article is an appallingly biased take on a complex issue, which does not explain the situation at all.
There is a clinical benefit for considering racial background in health decisions. That is all.