Equity not equality: the unequal outcomes in our health system w/ University of Auckland’s Dr Simone Watkins: 18 July, 2024

Nicola Willis said this year’s budget “delivers to Māori because when a New Zealand turners up to an emergency room or a school, they don’t turn up thinking about their ethnicity.

This comment was met with a lot of criticism, including from Asscoiate Professor Marama Muru-Lanning who responded, “When a Māori turns up at a hospital they know they are Māori! They never forget that, and they’re only there because they absolutely have to be there.”

Wire Host Caeden spoke to Dr Simone Watkins about the government’s “equal” approach to healthcare, and how that continues to disadvantage people who are Māori, Pasifika, and Indian.

They started by asking what the unequal health outcomes are.