PHARMAC is buying drugs invented overseas in complete ignorance of New Zealand circumstances so it is random chance that they will benefit any group more or less
Stuff delivered another woke-up call to its readers this morning with a report which presses Pharmac to hire more Maori.
There’s nothing in the article to convincingly explain how current staff ratios adversely affect Pharmac’s job of buying medicines or how they actually undermine the nation’s health.
The drug-purchasing agency’s “appalling” shortcomings instead relate to concerns about cultural inadequacies, systemic racism and a failure to meet Treaty of Waitangi obligations.
The on-line report is accompanied by a video of the PM facing questions about the government’s healthcare policy and its funding of Pharmac.
She will be used to such questioning. Pharmac is the constant target of grievances about its medicine-buying priorities and of petitioners who quickly muster popular support for demands that certain drugs be bought (typically at great cost) to deal with one life-sapping illness or another.
This time Stuff’s Katarina Williams has discovered –
Just three of Pharmac
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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