The right-wing government had told Pharmac that it no longer needed to consider the Treaty of Waitangi in its funding decisions
A director of New Zealand’s Pharmac medicine funding agency has resigned over the right-wing government’s targeting of policies that aim to improve the lives of Māori.A director of New Zealand’s Pharmac medicine funding agency has resigned over the right-wing government’s targeting of policies that aim to improve the lives of Māori.
Seymour, who is the leader of the minor libertarian Act party, and is in coalition government with the centre-right major National party and minor populist party New Zealand First, has long campaigned on providing services based on need not race. “It definitely didn’t sit well with my own personal beliefs as a clinician and, personally, as a Māori,” Jordan told the Guardian. “This was a really personal decision for me – I didn’t want to stay there and passively endorse .”
“It demonstrated evidence that when you consider ethnicity beyond just need, you can actually make a positive difference,” he said. Anaru Waa, a professor in public health at the University of Otago, told the Guardian the state of Māori health “is a shame on this country”, not only in the disparities in health outcomes but in the way Māori are treated within the health system.
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