On the eve of Prime Minister Helen Clark’s meeting with United States President George W. Bush, and other officials, it is not just the US in Anzus that New Zealand should be concerned about, writes NICHOLAS KERR. Closer to home, our relationship with Australia is not what it used to be either. [This op-ed originally […]
US healthcare problems—universal healthcare is not the solution
Shortly after Bernie Sanders’s recent and weakly argued Twitter pic in support of universal healthcare, I photoshopped it into a similarly weak counter-argument and Tweeted back. However, it’s a serious topic and deserves a more thorough response. It goes without saying that the U.S. healthcare system is far from perfect. But the focus should be […]