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Public-private partnership placebos

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  • Bronwyn Howell

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For New Zealand's baby boomers, notions of our nation's state-funded 'cradle to grave' healthcare system were liberally dispensed with mother's milk or swallowed down alongside school milk and fluoridated local water supplies. The common assumption is that the passing of the ground-breaking Social Security Act in 1938 - which conferred 'free' public hospital care to patients - was synonymous with central government taking on full responsibility (via taxation revenues) for both the services and the facilities in which hospital services were provided. Bronwyn Howell points out the fact-defying holes in such an assumption.

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  • Bronwyn Howell, 2009. "Public-private partnership placebos," Competition & Regulation Times 372803, New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation.
    • Handle: RePEc:vuw:vuwcrt:372803
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