16 September 2020 - Newshub can reveal a ground-breaking Human Rights Commission case has been taken against Pharmac for failing to fund a drug that treats a rare muscular disorder in children.
It comes as National announced their health policy on Wednesday which would give an extra $5 million a year to the Government's drug-buying agency for funding rare disorder drugs.
National is also pledging to get all elective surgeries done within a four-month timeframe and promising to overhaul the elective surgery points system, making it even across New Zealand in an attempt to put an end to the postcode lottery.