For weeks the Labour party has been pushing (see above), what has turned out to be a lie, that the government has made health cuts. They even set up a dodgy, lying website for their campaign.
We highlighted it several times, including figures from the Rotorua area that showed they were lying.
Now travel, lifestyle and fitness blogger, David Farrar, has compiled some real numbers to show that their claims were outrageous lies.
Labour have been going on for months claiming that health funding has not grown to keep up with our population and inflation. They cite a figure of $1.7 billion of under funding on this basis.
I made the mistake of assuming their figure was correct, and not checking up on it previously. I just assumed someone else would have.
But as I had some spare time last weekend I went through the Vote Health expenditure for the last decade. I then got the CPI figures and the resident population figures. And put them into the table below.
So health funding has increased by 35% in nominal terms. In real terms it has gone up 20% since 2008 and even in real per capita terms it is up 8.3%.
Those numbers show that Labour deliberately falsified their claims, fed their lies to a complicit and lazy media who dutifully repeated the lies without checking the numbers.
I won’t hold my breath for the journalists to correct their stories. Will Cate Broughton correct her story? Will Stacey Kirk correct her story and this story?
From a Google search it appears the laziest journalists come from Fairfax, simply repeating the words of Annette King and Labour with no fact checking. It is a disgrace.
– Kiwiblog
As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
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