Treasury put a value of 4.7 million per person. Gareth got the 10k number because someone he knows had his medication declined from pharmac and the cost of that medication was 10k.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/02/21/453077/is-a-...
Sorry I read this on my phone and didn't see the highlighted part. I thought you meant the 4.7 million.
Here's Gareth's tweet:
That's such controted logic. Here's the basis of my number. An acquaintance of mine died having been denied a course of drugs that would have cost Pharmac $10k (FYI I found out after the event). An action that speaks much louder than nutbar words from the Ivory Tower.
— Gareth Morgan (@garethmorgannz) April 13, 2020
Obviously shark but it also doesn't mean a life is worth 10k.