{"id":18055,"date":"2022-08-18T17:32:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T04:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=18055"},"modified":"2022-08-18T17:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T04:34:28","slug":"rachel-smalley-1000-kiwis-will-die-while-pharmac-takes-eight-months-to-make-a-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=18055","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Smalley: 1,000 kiwis will die while Pharmac takes eight months to make a decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"cmp-text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"articlecontentcontainer-bc115bd544\" class=\"cmp-container\">\n<p><strong>OPINION:\u00a0<\/strong>How long does it take you to make a decision about whether or not to buy something?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve got all the information in front of you. You know it\u2019s a good product. It works. You need it. And you\u2019ve got the money to buy it. So how long will it take?<\/p>\n<p>What if I said that every week that passes where you don\u2019t make a decision, 26 New Zealanders will die? What then? Do you think you could focus or add some urgency to that decision?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure you could.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it, then, that the same level of urgency doesn\u2019t apply to Government \u2013 and in particular, to Pharmac, our drug-buying agency?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.todayfm.co.nz\/home\/opinion\/2022\/08\/rachel-smalley-1000-kiwis-will-die-while-pharmac-takes-eight-months-to-make-a-decision.html\">https:\/\/www.todayfm.co.nz\/home\/opinion\/2022\/08\/rachel-smalley-1000-kiwis-will-die-while-pharmac-takes-eight-months-to-make-a-decision.html<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION:\u00a0How long does it take you to make a decision about whether or not to buy something? You\u2019ve got all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[26,31,33,38,45],"class_list":["post-18055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-media","category-featured","tag-chronic-lymphocytic-leukaemia","tag-cll-advocates","tag-leukaemia","tag-pharmac","tag-cll"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rachel_Smalley.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18063,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions\/18063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}