Posts by Paul Campbell
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And to follow on the above Tremain cartoon
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I thought it was a planet
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Crown solicitors - as independant contractors to the crown would seem to be prime targets for FOIA requests ....
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This could go in so many threads ..... today's Tremain in the ODT
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What I ind funny here is that "Dirty Politics: has now become a meme of the right
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those US tax decuctable accounts are a bit of a trap, essentially you put a portion of your income in a pre-tax box at the beginning of the year and can take it out to pay for non-reimbursed health expenses during that year ....
The catch is that if you don't empty the box before the end of the year someone (I have no idea who) takes the money - you lose it. It means that people tend to underestimate how much they will spend to a oid this
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Speaker: House prices and the "Magic Money", in reply to David Hood,
You might individually have been part of that, but the actual immigration numbers are not a match to house price rises- I can go through much the same process showing a lack of relationship between arrivals and house value.
I think more you should take out the portion attributable to mortgages, then do something similar for immigration (do people like me coming back from OE even show up on anyone's radar?) and then look at the remainder
So we get to the situation of access to capital (not identifiable within the New Zealand Economy) rather than people.
which was sort of my point
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no it's more an issue of the Insurance companies not wanting to spend money on diagnostics or specialists and pushing back at every possible point.
My doctor's practice in the US (5 GPs sharing space) had 4 people working in the receptionist's area, one working as a receptionist and 3 who's job is essentially dealing with insurance companies, my current doctor's practice in NZ (6 GPs I think) has just 1. My US dentist (sole practice) had 2 people working reception. You can see where the costs start to climb just from that.
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(and another view - Tremain from a few days ago)
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And just to prove how people outside of Auckland feel about all this angst about Auckland housing prices here's today's Tremain (ODT's editorial cartoon)
