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The Sunday Panel: How can we get the balance right for healthcare?

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Sun, 15 Jun 2025, 1:10pm
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The Sunday Panel: How can we get the balance right for healthcare?

Author
九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Sun, 15 Jun 2025, 1:10pm

This week on the Sunday Panel, journalist and editor Jo McCarroll and NZ Herald senior writer Simon Wilson joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more!

The private v public healthcare debate continues - how can we keep the waitlists down? There doesn鈥檛 seem to be an obvious solution, but this week, the Government is claiming to have 9696 extra elective surgeries, putting it on track to reach its end-of-June target of more than 10,579 operations. What do we make of this?

Should we have price controls in place for alcohol sold at off-licences in an attempt to reduce harmful drinking at home and boost hospitality? 

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