http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/06/29/a-debate-anyone/ hopping along the corridors of power Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:11:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/06/29/a-debate-anyone/#comment-1241 joy Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:07:01 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/06/29/a-debate-anyone/#comment-1241 Maybe I am missing some critical point, but I do not understand why a health funding policy must be race based so long as it is needs based. Surely, if a certain ethnic group has much greater needs (health) they will automatically get a greater share of the health funding? I am older and have health problems and I get my needs met. Well, more or less, as far as the public system provides. So what has my Celtic ancestry got to do with that? Nothing. Maybe I am missing some critical point, but I do not understand why a health funding policy must be race based so long as it is needs based. Surely, if a certain ethnic group has much greater needs (health) they will automatically get a greater share of the health funding? I am older and have health problems and I get my needs met. Well, more or less, as far as the public system provides. So what has my Celtic ancestry got to do with that? Nothing.

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