What is the Overton Window and why is it important? Joseph Overton, Senior VP at the Mackinac Centre, an Atlas think tank, is credited with creating a political strategy to shift public perception in order to implement previously unpopular and unacceptable policies. 🧵#nzpol

So Lester Levy is receiving a massive salary to work 60% of full-time hours, while overseeing slashing budgets and staffing, to force underpaid staff to work 150% of a full time position.

Nurses tell health minister targets not possible without more funding rnz.co.nz/news/political… "Nurses are being asked to do more with less". We need more nurses & pay parity Reti was told. He left straight after his speech & wouldn't take questions from the media. R u surprised?

Surgeons wouldn’t operate in a broom cupboard Dermatologists wouldn’t run clinic in the canteen ICU wouldn’t ventilate patients in the car park So why do we expect that Emergency care can be provided on corridors?

$320,000 for the health commissioner job, and he spends 2 days a week getting paid to work for AUT. You could get 1.7 new specialist doctors, working full time, for this 320K. Treating literally thousands of patients a year. And he doesn't show up to media discussion with the

HCA is pleased to see this being investigated. It's simply not good enough for the Minister to deny knowledge of the source of a document that has been critical to her decision-making and goes against advice from Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora rnz.co.nz/news/political…

I put it to you that more than just this registrar funding is in limbo. They tell us there's $1.4 billion in cuts coming. And also that there's 'no impact on #frontline services'. If only there was a word for being told something that's repeatedly been shown to be untrue.

Have these understaffed nurses considered taking a second job, (as a commissioner, if possible)? I hear that it pays well, in the high $300s, and is part-time. #GigEconomy

I'd prefer to see a ward nurse as the health commissioner, not people who spent their careers building for-profit health corporations and for-profit hospitals. Wish we had a governance panel of real nurses, doctors, and patients. But wishes are not enough.

Ignore the clickbait headline. But heed the general processed meat message. Lots of circumstantial evidence that processed meat (sausage, ham, bacon) is bad for you. In this case increasing dementia risk with just 1/4th of a serving per day (2 servings a week). Who would have

So progressive! Dying with Dignity Victoria started a "Young Ambassadors Program" for youth involved in assisted dying in Victoria, Australia. It's easy to forget that young people also suffer terminal illness and bad deaths, or see their parents suffering bad deaths, even as

Quite a bit of talk about #coercion in the world of #assisteddying. Overwhelmingly among this group of firsthand providers and users (doctors, lawyers, patients), coercion seems to involve the patients' families coercing terminally ill patients to undergo treatments, surgeries,

Will post the video when janie lazar makes it available.

Looked at another way, this explains why European healthcare, education, and access to housing seems so much better than in New Zealand. They collect taxes from wealthy people. We allow them to get away with 0.0% taxes on capital gains. #freeloaders #cgt tjanz.org/news-tax-resea…