Lester Levy: Health Commissioner on Health New Zealand's $1.4 billion deficit

The Mike Hosking Breakfast

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The Health Commissioner's pushing back on claims Health New Zealand's dealing with a manufactured crisis.

The agency's finances jumped from a half-a-billion dollar surplus to a $1.4 billion deficit in April, now expected to blow out to $1.76 billion.

Some have argued this comes down to its lack of funding.

But Lester Levy told Mike Hosking health expenditure's been increasing year-on-year for a long time.

He says we currently have more revenue going into the agency than we have previously, even at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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