Health
Executive Summary
The inconvenient truth is that the health system fails Māori.
The evidence for this assertion is outlined in the Health & Disability System
Review - also known as the Simpson Review (2020).
There have been multiple reviews that evidence systemic racism within the
health services area. This plays out across the whole of government and
therefore the whole of society.
The absolute failure of the Government over several decades in regard to
ensuring Māori achieve an equality of access and then outcome is best
evidenced by the health portfolio. Health as with welfare, education, justice and
housing is a mirror image of the degrading way in which Māori are treated.
Tinkering with systems across the whole of government will not achieve any
positive outcome because doing the same thing, gets the same result.
As with all our policy releases, we speak our liberated truth in the land of our
ancestors.
Te Pāti Māori will:
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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.
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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