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© Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.New Zealand debates whether ethnicity should be a factor for surgery waitlists
By NICK PERRY WELLINGTON, New Zealand©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Based
You don't "balance out" a picture on the wall that's crooked to the right ... by making it crooked to the left.
You balance it out by straightening it. By making it even. By making it level.
Race and ethnicity should play NO part whatsoever in something like this. Doesn't New Zealand believe in equality under the law?
TaiwanIsNotChina
What is going on here? It should be medical need and NOTHING else.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Okay, maybe also whether you've ruined the same organ before.
Luddite
Clinical need and waiting time should be the only factors considered. Anything else is just discrimination.
2020hindsights
It seems fair. If a population is already disadvantaged because of history, balancing that in modern day outcomes is fair and just.
diagonalslip
what with this and the Voice in Oz.... they are setting out on a very rocky road..... dear oh dear!
Raw Beer
Debating whether racism is OK?
GBR48
I hate Tories so I'm hardly right wing, but this is wrong and I would be furious if it had been applied to me or my family. Racial prejudice is wrong. Leaving people in pain because they are white is going to create the same anger as it would if they were left in pain because they were not. Expect court action for compensation and a very angry backlash. Those who were responsible for this should be fired. We should be excluding racial prejudice, not legitimising it.
kaimycahl
Hey Johnathan Prin!! Read this article it proves my point!! The system is in place no matter where you go not far from black and white Eh!!!! Now your history!!!
finally rich
You gotta be kidding me!
Literally killing whites in the name of "equity" or whatever it means these days.
Forwarding this article to Mr. Taylor right now