Health funding rollercoaster: Can we ring-fence the moolah?

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Health funding rollercoaster: Can we ring-fence the moolah?

Tim Tenbensel 2022

Tim Tenbensel

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Tim Tenbensel looks at the vexed issue of health funding and how, currently, it remains susceptible to political vagaries

Over the course of this extraordinary year in New Zealand health policy, I’ve sensed an increasing appetite to question one of the fundamental design