Painful steps to save ACC

TALE OF TWO CITIES: AUCKLAND By CHARLES CHAN IF A visitor to New Zealand is hurt in an accident, the last thing he or she has to worry about is paying for medical treatment or getting financial compensation. That is no-fault insurance at work, a scheme covering all New Zealanders, permanent residents, migrant workers and foreign tourists – all paid for by taxpayers. The scheme is one of those things that visitors to NZ find so endearing. If you get your thrills in mountain climbing, skiing, bungy-jumping and off-track biking, do it in NZ where you will be well looked after if you get hurt. Set up in 1974 and administered by the Accident Compen-sation Corporation (ACC), it provides a range of entitlements to injured people, from contribution towards the cost of treatment, to weekly compensation for lost earnings (paid at a... [read full story]                    

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