Health

The poor are eating rubbish food because healthy food is too expensive?

by Whaleoil September 2, 2010

Low income New Zealand fam­i­lies would have to spend up to a third of their income to eat health­ily, a researcher says. A sep­a­rate study reveals about 40 per cent of New Zealand house­holds go hun­gry, skip meals or scrimp on ingre­di­ents because they are not “food secure”. Food secu­rity is a key topic for […]

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The perils of the pills

by Whaleoil August 8, 2010

As part of my ongo­ing dis­cus­sion about depres­sion I am going to explain in cold facts why warm fuzzy soft focus ads do noth­ing in under­stand­ing depres­sion. Don’t get me wrong, John Kir­wan is doing a great job but he still doesn’t want to scare the horses on what I believe is a fraud and […]

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Tenderwatch — Establishing more Bro-rocracy

by Whaleoil July 28, 2010

bureau­cracy Well, well well, what have we found here. It seems the MOH is want­ing to hand out poten­tially hun­dreds of thou­sands of tax­payer dol­lars to “inves­ti­gate Maori tobacco con­trol”. Hang on a minute, isn’t that a job for the MOH. Oh silly me, of course not. Let’s fire out a gov­ern­ment ten­der and dole […]

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Sorry isn’t good enough

by Whaleoil July 8, 2010

Hands up those women who want to go see three doc­tors who between them con­tributed so sig­nif­i­cantly to a woman’s death that all three physi­cians have been rec­om­mended to review their prac­tices. Well you can’t know if you want to see them because their names are sup­pressed to pro­tect “their pri­vacy”. There is a good […]

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A.C.C. doing a Fidelity Life

by Whaleoil July 7, 2010

Madeleine Flan­na­gan has a shock­ing story about her treat­ment at the hands of ACC. The story is haunt­ingly like my bat­tle with Fidelity Life. The tac­tics are strik­ingly sim­i­lar. Dodgy prac­ti­tion­ers giv­ing dodgy diag­no­sis to suit insur­ers. In her case a retired ortho­pe­dic sur­geon by the name of Brian Otto. In my case it was […]

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I smell the influence of New York

by Whaleoil July 3, 2010

Mr. Steve Chad­wick has put an abor­tion on demand bill into the bal­lot. A Labour MP has taken the con­tro­ver­sial step of propos­ing a new law to legalise abor­tion on request for women up to 24 weeks into a preg­nancy. Steve Chad­wick, a mid­wife and for­mer asso­ciate health min­is­ter, is gaug­ing sup­port for what would […]

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The cosy arrangments of Insurers and Specialists

by Whaleoil May 30, 2010

This post is to demon­strate just how cosy the arrange­ments are between insur­ance com­pa­nies and their cho­sen pro­fes­sion­als that they use to root you over. In par­tic­u­lar the rela­tion­ship between Ralf Schn­abel and Fidelity Life. One of the so-called pro­fe­sion­als that was used to pro­vide “evi­dence” of my com­plete recov­ery from depres­sion was Ralf Schnabel. […]

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Missing the Point

by Whaleoil May 26, 2010

Nasty left­ists like to see peo­ple suf­fer. Bet­ter still they like to use their suf­fer­ing to score a polit­i­cal point. Take Frog, the tax­payer funded apol­o­gist for the Greens. Like a lit­tle anony­mous cunt he uses my case against Fidelity Life as proof pos­i­tive that ACC is the be all and end all, the nir­vana, the […]

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Well did they?

by Whaleoil May 10, 2010

Sent in via the tipline from a loyal reader. Spot­ted around Welling­ton. Related Posts:Lazarus return­ingThe $60 bil­lion ques­tionChristchurch­Please Explain Mr Hub­bard, you too Bill EnglishCap­tion Contest

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Loving the Labour Party

by Whaleoil May 6, 2010

Don’t you gotta love the Labour Party. Firstly Whanau Ora was too much for the damn last cab off the rank to han­dle or to know what to do with it effec­tively. Labour knows best how to spend money. Then it is not enough. And how rude to use a pic­ture of Dou­ble Hap­pies when Labour […]

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