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Speaker 1: So we end the week with a bit of good

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Speaker 1: health news. We've been way down this week, haven't we?

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Speaker 1: With a scrap over the fourteen ish layers of management,

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Speaker 1: no doctors and targetle at certain times of the day

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Speaker 1: for new CEOs and four regional operations that allegedly will

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Speaker 1: sort the mess out. Former board members snapping back at

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Speaker 1: criticism from the Prime Minister of myopic media trying their

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Speaker 1: best to Outshane Retty in what may or may not.

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Speaker 1: Most likely the latter would be some sort of semi

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Speaker 1: scandal around his interpretation of the need to sack boards.

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Speaker 1: But but the good news the removal the cancelation of

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Speaker 1: the ethnic diversity equity adjuster. You remember that it was

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Speaker 1: a massive scrap under the last government who tried desperately

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Speaker 1: to explain that using race was a good way to

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Speaker 1: work out who to put at the front of the

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Speaker 1: non urgent surgery line. Five indicators. We use things like

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Speaker 1: age and location, but race was the one that got

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Speaker 1: most of us upset. Gibbon, We thought we lived in

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Speaker 1: a fair and open country where race was not an

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Speaker 1: issue when it comes to publicly funded services like health.

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Speaker 1: It was predicated on the idea that mari are not

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Speaker 1: well served by health And in some respects that's true.

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Speaker 1: But poor old as Sipkins, you might remember, God himself

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Speaker 1: woefully tied up in knots over an example of a

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Speaker 1: person who lived rurally. Many of them maray, and how

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Speaker 1: because you were rural you didn't have the same access

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Speaker 1: to doctors as you would in the city, Which is true,

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Speaker 1: But then neither do you if you live rurally. But

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Speaker 1: aren't maray? That particular piece of logic seemed to elude them.

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Speaker 1: And when faced with the example of two people with

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Speaker 1: the same conditions and the same need fronting except one

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Speaker 1: was marrying one wasn't. Why was it fair that race

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Speaker 1: then made the difference? They couldn't quite offer an explanation

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Speaker 1: to balance that one out. Ironically, some of the health

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Speaker 1: service who reviewed it defended it. But people also seem

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Speaker 1: to be able to defend Maori, Seeds, Maurray, Wards Murray

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Speaker 1: funding services and entitlements that are purely race based. I

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Speaker 1: wonder they're so angsty about David Seymour's Treaty Bill. When

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Speaker 1: the scales are tipped that far in your favor, an

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Speaker 1: injection of balance and fairness and open democracy must be

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Speaker 1: a bit worrying. So in health, the race equity Adjuster

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Speaker 1: is going a reason, if not to celebrate, at least

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Speaker 1: to be relieved about. For more from the MICOSK Breakfast

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