Public misled, says M.P.
PA Wellington The public have been, misled and misinformed about health spending, according to Labour's spokesman on health. Mrs Ann Hercus. She said there must be an end to health spending cuts and there should be a concentration on making general practitioners' visits less expensive. particularly for children.
The Minister of Health. Mr Malcolm, was continually saying that health expenditure had doubled in the last 20 years. Mrs Hercus said. That was both misleading and “acutely unhelpful" in coming to any rational understanding of patterns of health expenditure in New Zealand. "It fails to take account of two crucial.factors — population changes and relative rising costs."
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