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Wednesday 14 August 2024, 12:45 AM
Fees, a boil that needs to be lanced
Wednesday 26 October 2022, 12:15 AM
To many patients, fees remain a significant barrier to care, and a driver of inequity [image: Dmitri Ko on Unsplash]
Why do we still charge vulnerable people for healthcare, asks Don Matheson
Fee payments cause more harm than good, and are a blatant driver of health access inequities
In the 1930s, the designers of New Zealand’s welfare
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