Three: no rural voice. Where is the rural voice in the Health reforms? What about the half million people who live in rural areas with less access to GPs, laboratories, and after-hours services? Where is their voice and recognition of their unique needs in these reforms? Rural people are invisible. The Labour-majority select committee didn't even want to include or contemplate rural people in this bill. What about exhausted rural GPs? GPs and, in fact, primary care don't even have a representative on the Health New Zealand board. Despite the fact key solutions in the reforms are keeping more people at home, that's primary care. Kicking people out of hospital earlier—also known as reducing length of stay—that's primary care also; that's where they go to. Yet primary care doesn't even deserve a place on the Health New Zealand board. The rural voice is invisible. 