Is This a Brighter Future?
I am a volunteer for both the Red Cross, and St John and have been doing this for many years, I have recently been in the need to have a hernia repaired, and as they do not have the funds available in the hospital, I am out of luck, I have had to purchase a support truss with my own funds to keep an egg sized lump where it belongs. If this is a brighter future, I hate to think what the dull one would be, I am absolutely disgusted with the system, and will make sure all MPs and the media get to hear about this sorry saga.

R G Chamberlain, Otumoetai.