An interview with Dr Marcus Lee, a Northland cardiologist who, along with dozens of other doctors, penned an open letter to Simeon Brown, the Minister of Health, and other top politicians, asking them to put their money where their mouth is: To pause their private health insurance plans while they're in office, and to live with the same public healthcare system that the majority of New Zealanders, young and old, must rely on.

What a great idea! I was happy to sign on.

Just imagine a world where the understaffing of public hospitals and GPs and nurses actually affected those politicians making the laws and deciding where the taxpayers' money gets spent. We'd have a better public healthcare system as fast as you could say: "Wow, I guess that $2.9 billion dollars of our taxpayer money given to landlords really could have fixed all our healthcare staffing shortages nationwide and provided public dental care for every Kiwi."Skin in the Game matters! Accountability matters! Hypocrisy withers under the light of day.

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