TUI medical - cost of accessing healthcare

Serafina from Forest Lake

I don't know who remembers this far back but when Tui first came out they had free appointments for anyone with a community services card, after they hit a certain point of enrollment they upped the fees on those community service card holders

Recently I have had an extraordinarily terrible experience in regards to the cost of accessing healthcare, I'm going to make it very clear that this is not a complaint about the standard of care I received from the staff, but I have left some feedback and their Google reviews for their Te Rapa facility

But when I went into the place I was told that it would cost $100 to get a simple medical certificate so that I would not have my payments cut off via a very different state owned body in this country.
I am in the position of requiring surgery before I am able to regain use of my dominant hand

After much harassment and threats of getting cut off by that state owned body was able to eventually get a medical certificate from a completely different Doctors Service but even at this place it was a substantial cost

I have to say that dealing with the state-owned body was not pleasant either given that the last time I had asked them for help with something the staff member was incredibly abusive and despite filing a complaint about it nearly a year ago had to do so again in January
But thankfully these people record their phone calls for quality assurances don't they?
I am yet to receive a proper response to either of these complaints

Has anyone out there had similar issues dealing with either the state-owned body or tui medical in regards to accessing proper healthcare after the current government has gutted the funding to our public health care system?

I cannot be the only one out there going through this