Did you know that the growth in New Zealanders' life expectancy, increasing since basically forever, has finally fizzled out? That our levels of untreated youth mental health problems have shown a staggering increase? And that our lack of access to GPs has perfectly mirrored our blown-out numbers of ED presentations? 

Economist Andrea Black and I talked about data trends and a decade of economic insights. How good did we have it, how bad are things now, are there any bright spots, and where has the money gone? And perhaps most importantly, can we fix it?