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Andrew Riddell's avatar

Largely unspoken is that Lester Levy is currently (according to the company office records) a director in three private firms providing health scans. And has a long record of directorships of private health provider companies.

Te Whatu Ora responded to an information request for the actual outsourcing spend and the estimate of what it would have cost in-house for the same service - responses from most of the old Health Boards.

For example, the Waitematā Health Board figures show outsourcing of MRI, CT and PET scans as all substantially cheaper when undertaken by the public health system, but ultrasounds and general radiology as more costly (but a cautionary note added about difficulty of estimating the cost differences of these).

More responses from former-Health Boards at https://fyi.org.nz/request/19607-outsourcing-elective-surgeries#incoming-74276 (you need to scroll down about 2/3rds of the way down before data responses are found).

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Eli Campbell-Stokes's avatar

The biggest problem with privatisation is the finality of it. The government doesn't need a second term to do irreparable damage to the country because once assets are sold, an change of government can't undo that sale. As a young person leaving the country for a few years at the end of this one, I'm afraid of the state of the country when I come home to raise a family

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