Archive for September 27th, 2007

Cheat Neutral

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

This is not new, but is pretty clever. In the great tradition of the Yes Men, these guys perpetuated a fairly clever launch of their new business, Cheat Neutral. They, and the issues around carbon offsetting, got a huge amount of publicity. The vid has been viewed on YouTube around 16,000 times since July, […]

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Nats want to make GP visits more expensive!

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

First it was selling off public assets and now it’s removing the pseudo-cap on the cost of GP visits. National is proposing some very stupid things.
Making primary healthcare more accessible to everyone by reducing fees improves people’s health. It’s a genuinely good thing.
My GP now charges $29 per visit, whereas previously it had been $60. It’s true […]

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