Foreigners responsible for $68.5m of debt written off by New Zealand District Health Boards
9 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Non-New Zealand residents have left hospitals to write off $62m of debt in the past five years. Photo / 123rf
Foreigners have received almost $204.4 million worth of hospital treatment in New Zealand in the past five years, leaving the taxpayer to foot the bill for a third of that. Data provided by 19 of the country s 20 district health boards revealed more than $68.5m worth of treatment provided to non-New Zealand residents was written-off as bad debt between July 2015 and June 2020, excluding GST.
It is a sum the health minister has labelled as the cost of being a compassionate country .
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