Health NZ Board Sacking Highlights Failure Of Centralisation-at-any-cost Agenda

The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming the sacking of the
Health NZ Board who have failed to meet performance
expectations but says the blame should also sit with the
previous Government.

Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns
Manager, Connor Molloy, said:

“Centralising and
restructuring the health system into a bureaucratic behemoth
was never going to deliver its promised efficiencies.
Instead, taxpayers have been left with deteriorating health
services and eye-watering cost blowouts.

“It is
clear the board has failed to perform, but ultimately the
responsibility must sit with the Government who decided it
was a good idea to restructure in the middle of a
pandemic.

“The health reforms have cost households
thousands of dollars each, but they are left with nothing to
show for it. Today’s announcement is simply more evidence
that Wellington-knows-best centralisation simply doesn’t
work and that a decentralised model with choice and
competition would not only deliver far better outcomes but
also value for money for the
taxpayer.”

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