Post B2fBazmNWPvafk76vI by janef0421@mastodon.nz
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 (DIR) Post #B2fBazmNWPvafk76vI by janef0421@mastodon.nz
       2026-01-25T21:47:04Z
       
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       I think ACC is a bad and inequitable system. Having a massive difference in the support provided to those who are injured and those who are ill for other reasons is unjust. By reducing liability for personal injury, it reduces the incentives to improve safety and socialises the cost of negligence. New Zealand has some of the worst workplace safety, and I think ACC is a major contributor. I believe the system needs serious reform. #NZPol
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fBb1F850WJDCZaNM by RyChaz@mastodon.nz
       2026-01-25T23:05:50Z
       
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       @janef0421 IMHO, increasing liability for injuries isn't an answer as it will simply add a way for health insurance companies to bloat their profits further, particularly those with US ties, where such a system isolates many from.care.Also, having lived in the UK for decades where the NHS treated both injuries and illness equally I can definitely say there was no such problem. It did not make people more likely to injured themselves, or workplace safety standards lower. Right wing politics always wanted to, though, just as it demonised basic human rights as if the enemy of the population, when those rights actually protected them. Farage had dodgy links to the US and was a mouthpiece advocating US style insurance methods. I also recall a Boris Johnson Mayor Of London campaign plastering the Underground walls with posters which in essence urged people to launch formal complaints about their free at point of access NHS care so they could then harp on about how unfit the system was, and push insurance based and paid care as the solution, again with dodgy US ties.Kiwis have to be extremely careful not to allow that dysfunctional 'solution' as it really is enlarging a healthcare black hole of poverty and bankruptcy for people to fall into.Work safety standards being low in NZ reflects excessive pandering to companies/corporates at the expense of individuals, plus an unempathic indifference or sociopathy in political leadership. So push political parties and individual MPs to care more, and follow through on that all the way to workplace legislation.Enlarging the capability of healthcare corporates to bloat profits is not any kind of solution. Kiwis need to be alert to politicians, media personalities, and profiles which misrepresent it as such, or they will be played, big time, and pay /suffer for decades. Introducing payment for injury is a corporate trap door US type profiteers want average Kiwis to fall down.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2fBb2hsdb71kf23pQ by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2026-01-26T02:50:09Z
       
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       @RyChaz > Work safety standards being low in NZ reflects excessive pandering to companies/corporates at the expense of individuals... and they're not always at the same low. Pike River provoked a big lift in workplace safety standards and enforcement, which the CoC have only somewhat unpicked. The next government can and must lift those standards, in consultation with workers and our unions. To make any regulations actually improve safety, rather than just producing makework.@janef0421