Health
Total Health
The McGillicuddy Serious Party is committed to the policy of Total Health. We promise to reduce waiting lists, provide more doctors, more hospital beds and many more hospitals, while at the same time slashing the health dollar. To achieve Total Health we believe in the combination of a healthy medieval lifestyle and a complete lack of funding.
Of all the technological advances of the last 500 years, those that people are most willing to accept as positive progress is in the area of Health. However it is increasingly clear that this enthusiasm is largely misplaced. The simple lesson from history is that as advanced as medicine has become, something else has come along to make people sick. The recent disturbing emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a classic example of this. Constantly pumping chemicals into the human body can create as many problems as it solves. Then to compensate for the increasing failure of technology to solve our nations heath problems, Governments over the last few decades have turned more and more to expensive technology, paid for out of money from traditional services. In a recent poll, 72% of people agreed that health services have suffered in recent years.
How does New Zealand get the best health service it deserves?
The McGillicuddy Serious Party’s Total Health policy provides a two pronged approach.
Less funding - Better Service
Presently in New Zealand, the more health dollars a Government spends, the fewer the number of hospitals that remain open. Total Health can therefore only be achieved through Zero Spending. THE GREAT LEAP BACKWARDS© recognises and embraces this paradox and whilst axing all health spending, the McGillicuddy Serious Government will multiply the number of hospitals, until every house becomes a hospital (1). The distance to the nearest hospital is thus greatly reduced, and with the increase in the number of rural doctors, so too are operation waiting times.
(1) To be sung to the same tune as the National Anthem of
Canada.