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Health funding weirdness

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Christopher Luxon says his Government is investing a record $16.7 billion into health. That’s at the same time as his Government is cutting expenditure in health by $1.4b. Taken together, those two statements make perfect sense and there is nothing weird about this at all. 

Bruce Holm 

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