National admit real health policy being kept secret

Don Brash must immediately release National’s detailed health policy that
Paul Hutchinson has admitted the party is keeping secret says Cabinet
Minister Pete Hodgson.

“We go to the polls tomorrow and now National’s health spokesperson Paul
Hutchinson has divulged that the party is deliberately keeping the full
details of its health policy secret,” said Pete Hodgson.

Hutchinson admitted the strategy of deliberate deception in an email to the
GiveLife organisation in which he said:

” The strategy team has preferred we do not publish a detailed policy.”

“Don Brash appeared on television many times saying that the detail of
National’s health policy had not been worked out. Hutchinson’s revelation
puts a lie to Brash’s claims. National’s strategy team knows exactly where
the cuts will be made and they have deliberately chosen to keep these from
the public.

“Don Brash must front up right now.

– What is National’s real spending track for health?

– Just what services and staff will be cut in order to “reprioritise”
services?

– How many tens of thousands of Kiwi families will have their entitlement to
cheaper doctors visits and prescriptions cut?

– What are its plans for users pays in hospitals?

– Just how much of the health system will be privatised?

– What plans are there for sacking support staff?

– What plans are there for wage freezes in the sector?

– What plans are there for recruitment freezes?

“Brash confused and deliberately misled the public for days over his many
meetings with the Exclusive Brethren before admitting he knew all along
about what there were up to. Now we learn from National’s own health
spokesperson the detail of the party’s policy is being deliberately kept
secret.

“We know you know the detail, why won’t you tell the truth?”

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