• David Palmer
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    262 years ago

    Such a great policy for so many reasons. Equitable access to dental care for everyone leads to significantly improved health outcomes overall.

    • @grasshopper
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      192 years ago

      Agreed, and from the article, 3/4 of voters agree too! There’s no reason why teeth should be treated so differently to the rest of healthcare.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        The dental industry doesn’t want a single-payer at all. That’s the problem, all the experts in the field are operating in their own interests.

        Unfortunately ~49% of the population still think that “user-pays” is fair.

      • @Chickenstalker
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        -12 years ago

        It’s because historically, dentists were their own thing separate from surgery and also physicians for hundreds of years. You see this even today. Many universities have Dentistry as a separate Faculty from Medicine.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      Their tax policy was already announced regarding their wealth tax and income tax adjustments.

      Iirc very terse summary: 1.5% tax on net wealth > $4M; income tax reduction for <$125k pa incomes, tax increase for >$125k pa incomes.

      • @[email protected]
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        02 years ago

        I know what it is, I find it disappointing Radio NZ didn’t even link to a story on the changes.

      • @[email protected]
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        -62 years ago

        You don’t think a link to one of radio NZ’s own stories on the tax would have been in order?

        Obviously I know what they’re referring to.

          • @[email protected]
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            -12 years ago

            I didn’t. I pointed out that RNZ made no mention of the actual tax changes in their story, which I think is somewhat slack on their behalf.