I’ve been commentating on politics for 30 years and I have never in my life witnessed something so cruel and vile as promising cancer patients their life saving drugs and then not funding them. Any organisation can improve its performance (and Pharmac has) but the real problem for Pharmac has never been the way it operates. That the Government did not provide the $280m for 13 cancer medicines in the Budget has (and this is speculation) nothing to do with funding. …it was National Party incompetence as to why it has failed to deliver on its promise to cancer patients! Cancer patients have been totally screwed over here!

Source: New Zealand Herald June 12, 2024 23:20 UTC