The outgoing National MP Jonathan Coleman is defending his record as Health Minister, while debate rages on about funding for public services. The coalition government is softening up the electorate for a Budget that may not live up to everyone's expectations, by talking up the deficits in health and education it inherited from National. Dr Coleman has delivered his valedictory speech to Parliament as he prepares to take up a job heading the private health provider Acurity.
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