Re: ‘Weighing up bills or food' (The Weekend Sun, July 25). It was a sad day when I read a woman with a sick nine-year-old was turned away from a doctor for lack of money.

I don't know the circumstances, but a sick child without means denied medical attention? What a disgusting turns of events.

How low has this country stooped in the last few years? Pity Simon Bridges didn't look around to see what's happening under his feet before he spouts his old bull, telling us how well off we are.

Isn't there something in the Hippocratic Oath about a doctor is to do his best for the patient, not for the physician – like making loads of money? Or has the oath been rewritten by John Key?

NZ's population is living longer and needs more and more medical assistance, costing more money.

We can only imagine what will happen in a few years' time. Are people going to be left to die, or suffer excruciating pain, lacking medical attention? Perhaps we'll have to wait for Salvation Army to do something, like they do in third world countries. When things start to go wrong, health godfather Tony Ryall will be out of the public eye.

Bay of Plenty District Health Board CEO Phil Cammish will be off on the next round of CEO musical chairs. Whichever government is elected in September will have to put a safety net or something in place, because there's going to be a lot of poor people needing medical attention.

Lots of Kiwi pensioners are priced out of Southern Cross Medical Insurance. So what will help us when doctor's fees go up and up? Is this young girl the first debris of the Key administration?

Ray Jones, Otumoetai.