In 2001, the British Medical Journal described the reforms that brought about DHBs, and the Labour Government that did it, as working to achieve the goals of "a system promoted as allowing greater community voice in health sector decision-making" and "putting the public back into the public health system". What these reforms do is put bureaucracy back into the health system. What these reforms do is take the public out of the public health system. Decentralisation of healthcare by this bill will put layers and layers of bureaucracy between patients and the Minister: a national commissioner, four regional commissioners, four to five district locality commissioners, 80 localities, and then providers, and then patients—more money, more bureaucracy, and worse outcomes. Centralising healthcare in the middle of a pandemic, when New Zealanders are dying every single day, is a reform that will fail, that deserves to fail, and will see this Government out of office.