Labour lies on health

June 9th, 2016 at 7:00 am by David Farrar
Labour have been going on for months claiming that health funding has not grown
to keep up with our population and inflation. They cite a figure of
$1.7 billion of under funding on this basis.

I made the mistake of assuming their figure was correct, and not checking up on
it previously. I just assumed someone else would have.

But as I had some spare time last weekend I went through the Vote Health expenditure for the last decade. I then got the CPI figures and the resident population figures. And put them into the table below.

Health Funding

So health funding has increased by 35% in nominal terms. In real terms it has gone up 20% since 2008 and even in real per capita terms it is up 8.3%.

That’s pretty good considering the GFC and the Christchurch earthquakes led to huge deficits, which the Government also had to close.

http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2016/06/labour_lies_on_health.html

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