Labour hid 1.5 BILLION ACC shortfall - Ministerial inquiry

[MisterD]

Well Key must be listening to me and watching KB

So come on guys lets hear a call from you lot about this $70 mill cock up that the Nats signed with our money as a gurantee.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=10559878

Erm, I think you'll find that was a triumph of the previous administration that the current one is having to suck up. I clearly remember the smugness with which Doc Sullen announced it after (again!) refusing the advice of treasury officals that the opposition really ought to have been consulted...

[davereid]

As for National, maybe they do want to sell ACC.

ACC should be dumped completely.

ACC is usually quoted as the reason I can't do stuff.

WHAAAA WHINNNNNE, if you do that you may hurt yourself, and I may have to pay for it, so I'm sending a policeman around to knock you off your push bike cos you didnt have a helmet...

Please, let me make my own decisions, leave my money in my wallet, if I F.Up, guess what, you don't have to care.

If we DO need ACC, it should have an excess.. like you pay the first $500 per claim yourself.

And that becomes $1500 when you lose your no-claims.

Everybody seriously injured would still get the rescue helicopter, but the "hit the thumb with hammers" would be "gee, I bet that hurt, do you have private insurance or will you pay cash ?"