Political Parties - Health Policies - 2008 General Election

Hiya.
I wouldn't presume to try to influence your vote in this years General Election, but what I thought I would do, is give us all the chance to be more informed about the policies each of the main parties represented in the current parliament, have adopted in respect of people with disabilties, and more general health policies. I've been trawling the official websites of the main politicalparties to track down what info I can for you.

The lURL's below should be safe - I've used them tonight.

Mental & General Health Policies of the Main Political Parties Contesting the
2008 General Election – as published on their websites and accessed 24 October 2008. URLs are as below.

Labour
http://www.labour.org.nz/index.html

National
http://www.national.org.nz/PolicyAreas.aspx?S=12

Greens
http://www.greens.org.nz/policy/summary/health health policy
http://www.greens.org.nz/policy/summary/disability disability policy

NZ First
http://www.nzfirst.org.nz/policies/health.php health policy
http://www.nzfirst.org.nz/policies/disability.php disability policy

Progressive Party
http://www.progressive.org.nz/default.aspx?page=235&news=48

United Future –
http://www.unitedfuture.org.nz/default,202,health.sm health policy
http://www.unitedfuture.org.nz/default,876,disability_.sm disability policy

Maori Party
http://www.maoriparty.com - their home page. They listed only three policies as at 20 Sept 2008 when I searched their site. None appeared to specifically address either general or mental health issues. But you may have more luck.

ACT
http://www.act.org.nz/policies

The list isn't in any particular order of perceived merit - its just the order I rembered the names of the parties as I was doing this. If I missed anyone, feel free to add their details.

I'd be interested to know your take on their various 'policies' relating to matters dear to our hearts.