Gold! Gold! Gold for kidneys!

Every time I hear people whining that New Zealand doesn’t win enough Commonwealth or Olympic medals in the press I find myself wishing that the person they’re whining at would lay it on the line: the reason Australia does better than us is because they spend a huge amount of money on it - $380 million this year alone. That buys a lot of cancer drugs, or heart transplants, or hip operations. I’d be intrigued to hear how many hip operations we should cancel so we could increae our funding to Aussie levels. How many dead cancer patients is a gold medal worth?