Let the cancer patients die while the Health Ministry sit in their new offices

Cancer patients have been going without treatment as the New Zealand ministry of health refuses to pay $150k all up for radiologists to get a pay rise, and instead spends $6m on new offices for the Health Ministry bureaucracy. Meanwhile the NZ government has billions of dollars in tax surplus.

I think that's quite shocking, but then most things that governments to anywhere are shocking, so whatever. But I don't see how refusing to give pay rises to radiologists and buying new offices for the bureaucracy is going to help anyone get healthier. In fact, I don't see how having a bureaucracy at all is going to help doctors diagnose and treat patients any better at all.

The government should be providing services to the population such as law, education and health, but it certainly shouldn't be paying people to boss each other around, and hire more managers to tell the other managers what to do, or hire so many people for those purposes that it needs to buy new buildings for them.

Oh well, its bound to happen anyway.