Greens
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Name | Greens |
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| Video Policy | |
| Goal or Vision | The Green Party envisions a holistic social security, health and disability system, focused on promoting good health, reducing the risk and impact of illness and injury, and improving the quality of life. |
| Policy Principles | |
| Principle 1 | Equitable rehabilitation for all people suffering impairment caused by injury, illness or other disability. |
| Principle 2 | The retention of public provision of rehabilitation and compensation for personal injury, funded through an equitable mix of levies on employers, employees, motor vehicle usage and general taxation. |
| Principle 3 | The Green Party believes that rehabilitation to the greatest extent practicable, rather than theoretical work capacity, ought to be the main focus of ACC. |
| Principle 4 | |
| Principle 5 | |
| Policy Details | |
| Detail 1 | The Green Party will: Ensure that all people who have a genuine work-related gradual process injury, disease or infection, including occupational overuse injuries and chemical poisoning, can obtain ACC cover. |
| Detail 2 | The Green Party will: Ensure that all people who receive unexpected and unintended injuries as a consequence of medical treatment can access ACC cover. |
| Detail 3 | The Green Party will: Restore cover to people who suffer only mental injury caused by accident, treatment by registered health professionals, or work-related gradual process injury, disease or infection. |
| Detail 4 | The Green Party will: Ensure that adequate and appropriate social and vocational rehabilitation is provided. |
| Detail 5 | The Green Party will: Introduce a regime under which weekly compensation is treated no differently from other income for benefit abatement purposes. |
| Detail 6 | The Green Party will: Take into account seasonal workers and people in temporary employment in the formula setting the level of weekly compensation |
| Detail 7 | The Green Party will: Adequately fund independent advocacy agencies for people who are injured. |
| Detail 8 | The Green Party will: Create an ACC ombusdman to take over the functions of the ACC Complaints Investigation Service. |
| Detail 9 | |
| MP to Contact | Kevin Hague |
| Source and Link to Policy Documentation | greens.org.nz/... |
| Vote For Policy | Votes 1 |
| Rate Policy | 4.0/5 1 rating |
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