Associate Health Minister blames measles outbreak on possible future tax cuts!

Newshub reports:

Associate Health Minister Julie Anne Genter says if National goes into the next election promising tax cuts, it’ll be at the expense of the fight against measles. 
More than 1800 people have been infected with the highly virulent disease in the present outbreak, about 1500 of them in Auckland alone. Measles has the ability to weaken the body’s immunity to other diseases and can even be fatal.  …

Asked if the initial response here in New Zealand was too slow, Genter blamed a lack of funds initially available.
“This sort of thing takes time to build up. Our readiness to preparedness to respond is actually several years in the making, and that’s why it’s so important… to properly fund our health system,” said Genter.
“Anyone campaigning on tax cuts is basically promising that we’ll run down public services in the future, because the reality is New Zealand – to be like other developed countries with good levels of services and infrastructure – needs to be able to pay the people who do that work, needs to be able to hire the people who go out and do the immunisations.”

What a load of crap.

Her Government dropped having a health target for vaccinations and has seen immunisation rates drop after years of increasing.

Her Government has also just declared a $7.5 billion surplus.

What Genter doesn’t get is money doesn’t achieve results unless you have competence to go along with it.