Public Healthcare for very, very rich people
I’ve always found that the concept of public good always seems to get flushed down the toilet by corporate vested interest. Recently the contract to test came up for renewal and one of those on the board making the decision, also just happened to pitch for the contract earning some considerable personal financial benefit. The point of the contract renewal should be to provide the best medical testing service to NZers IT SHOULD NOT BE an opportunity for people on the board making the decision to use public money to set up their own bloody company!
When blue collar or no collar do this it is called theft. When white collar do this it is called entrepreneurship.
Ex-board member accused of conflict of interest in lab
A former Auckland District Health Board member has been accused of a conflict of interest after failing to disclose a financial stake in the company awarded a medical testing contract worth hundreds of millions. Papers currently before the High Court say pathologist Tony Bierre - then a board member - paid $83,000 for a 16.67 per cent stake in a medical consortium that became Lab Tests, on the same day the board awarded the consortium the $560 million contract. His investment could have returned Dr Bierre an after-tax figure of "close to $1 million a year", the papers claim. Diagnostic Medlab - which lost out to Lab Tests to provide medical testing services to the Auckland region - says Dr Bierre in 2005 made recommendations to the board on "laboratory service delivery and configuration in Auckland", while he was seeking board funding for a boutique laboratory of his own. It alleges he later used his knowledge of the board to get a better deal for Lab Tests, in which he held a 17 per cent share.
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dirrty f**ken b**tard. Corruption abounds on that board. What penalties might he suffer?
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