it makes a little money now and they don’t really care if it costs more in the long term.
All politicians - but especially the right - do this all the time and have done forever. The point of party politics is to win elections and retain power, full stop (mostly to prevent the other side from doing things they and their pals may not like), not to do things with that power that serve the public interests. The left at least will sometimes publicly admit there are real public interests. The right only ever state them as euphemisms for their own interests and those of their pals.
(Nye Bevan was right: “Toryism is just organised spivvery”)
It sounds from other reportage that the sort of people New Zealand voted into office would see unequal health outcomes as a bonus.
See also the past week or two’s evidence at the UK Covid enquiry.
