Health

Te Pāti Māori will:

  • Increase funding for Te Aka Whai Ora (Māori Health Authority).
    25% of all Health funding to be transferred to and administer by the Te Aka Whai Ora.
  • Free Primary Care for Whānau earning less than $60,000.
  • Free Dental Care or Whānau earning less than $60,000.
  • Free delivery of medication to houses for whānau earning less than $60,000.
  • Implement A Māori Health Card - Whānau in control of the health services they need.
    Issued to all Māori linked to their NHI number and ensures that health funding follows the Māori patient and not a Hospital, a Primary Healthcare Organisation, or a General Practice. Health must be about the patient, and funding must follow that patient’s preferences. We can no longer have our money spent for us on a service that fails us.
  • Invest $1 billion per annum in Health Workforce Development.
  • Accelerate and Protect Mātauranga Māori Models of Health.
  • Establish a comprehensive Kaupapa Māori Mental Health Service.
  • Drop Māori Cancer Screening By 10 years.
  • Increase funding for PHARMAC.
  • Establish a Māori Accident Compensation Authority

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