Health Insurance
Fears of privatisation by stealth in overwhelmed healthcare
As more and more healthcare becomes private, experts worry about increasing inequality in New Zealand Audio
US health bill to leave 14m more uninsured - analysis
An estimated 14 million more people in the US would lose insurance coverage in 2018 under the new Republican healthcare plan, according to a budget analysis office.
US Senate makes move against Obamacare
The US Senate has voted to draft legislation repealing Barack Obama's signature health insurance programme, with another vote due this week.
Insurance a rip off? Two thirds of people think so
Consumer New Zealand survey has found two-thirds of people feel they are getting ripped off by their health and life insurance. Audio
Out of coma, in to serious debt
A New Zealand woman who had to be flown home from the Cook Islands with severe burns from a lawnmower accident is now out of an induced coma. Audio
Paying for Health
From the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, A. Prof. Salmaan Keshavjee is the author of Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health, which examines… Audio
