{"id":4565,"date":"2015-04-21T08:33:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T19:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2015-04-21T08:58:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T19:58:52","slug":"broken-promise-of-free-doctors-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4565","title":{"rendered":"Broken promise of free doctors visits."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4548 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nats-1024x467.jpg\" alt=\"Nats\" width=\"500\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nats-1024x467.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nats-300x137.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nats-495x226.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nats.jpg 1209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free doctors\u2019 visits and prescriptions for \u00a0all children aged under 13\u00a0was promised by the Finance minister\u00a0Bill English in last years budget. This promise has been broken by the National government and\u00a0ACC Minister Nikki Kaye decided paying for 90 percent coverage was near\u00a0enough.<\/p>\n<p>The National government celebrated as more than 400,000 school children would be entitled to free GP visits through one of the biggest surprises in the Budget 2014. Then in 2015 parents are horrified to learn some children will miss out.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0policy has been changed to\u00a0213,000 children will receive free injury-related doctors visits. \u00a0When the National government makes a promise it should stand by that promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder Free doctors\u2019 visits and prescriptions for \u00a0all children aged under 13\u00a0was promised by the Finance minister\u00a0Bill English in last years budget. This promise has been broken by the National government and\u00a0ACC Minister Nikki Kaye decided paying for 90 percent coverage was near\u00a0enough. The National government celebrated as more than 400,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4579,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/4579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}