I have just spent 10 years with a stuffed shoulder and ACC has, in all areas, gone around the replacement of the joint. After three operations which achieved nothing they said that it was arthritis. My surgeon promptly listed me with public health and in four months I had a new joint.
Why am I writing this? Nope, it isn't to show how ACC is such a great help to people who have accidents. It's what I heard whilst in hospital. It seems all hospitals in NZ have done probably more than their quota in operations but the lists are getting longer. Is it because of all the people being shoved off the ACC register, making ACC look good and making a profit, while hospitals are made to look bad? I was told that there were more like me pushed through the public system when it was up to ACC to take care of us.
G McKenzie, Papamoa.
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You sound surprised
Posted on 22-11-2017 09:04 | By The Tomahawk Kid
Any organisation that offers its services for free - including the government run health system - will EVER have enough money to keep goods or services on the shelves. Imagine a government run supermarket with free food (god help us). The shelves would be stripped faster than they could be stocked. The only way to combat this is to RATION those goods or services. Instead of making more operations and treating more patients the only thing they can do is to make it HARDER to get on the LIST in the first place. If you could afford private insurance (as most cant after paying for the govt system) you could be treated tomorrow! The system prevents you from receiving treatment when YOU want it in favour of when THEY (govt) say you are sick enough - thats the way a socialist system works.
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