It was another big day of big policies on the campaign trail, with two big policies from the two major parties.
Labour's promising a $1 billion boost to Pharmac.
But that doesn't go far, with the drug-buying agency needing twice that to fund all the drugs it wants to.
Samantha Lenik has Pompe disease. A treatment is funded in 79 other countries, but it isn't even on Pharmac's wishlist.
"For me, grappling with having a rare disorder then grappling with, well why can't I access it and why don't they fund it?" said Lenik.
"It's incredibly frustrating to see countries - third world countries - that do fund it. Ukraine, even during the current war they are funding it."
Labour leader Chris Hipkins said the party was committed to increasing Pharmac funding.
"I would note that is in contrast with the National Party which wants to cut free prescription in order to fund a handpicked group of cancer drugs," he said.
Christopher Luxon was doing some picking of another kind - which ice cream to have.
National says beneficiaries need some tough love, unveiling a sanction regime for jobseekers on the benefit and threatening to cut payments entirely for people who don't comply.
"We believe fundamentally in our core that work is the way we solve poverty in this country," Luxon said.
National would introduce obligations for beneficiaries including reapplying for their benefit every six months and having proof of job applications and interviews.
If someone has a warrant out for their arrest, their benefit would be cut for a month and it would index benefits to inflation, rather than wages, so generally benefits will not rise as fast as they are now.
"People who aren't going to job interviews, they are not turning up to Work and Income, they're not turning up to training, no surprise, they're not going to get a job. You're not going to get a job if you turn up to a job interview in your pyjamas," said social development spokesperson Louise Upston.
But Greens co-leader Marama Davidson said that was "continuing some of the cruellest, harshest, laziest politics that the National Party are continuing to push out there".
For beneficiaries who don't - or can't - comply, the Nats have taken a leaf out of the COVID playbook and devised a traffic light system.
Green - the jobseeker is compliant - no changes to their benefit
Orange - one or two breaches - so they get more regular check-ins
On the third breach, that's red - they will suffer sanctions like money management, mandatory community work - or even having their benefit reduced or cut entirely.
Hipkins said: "Harsher sanctions don't work."
"National's plan today would simply result in more people living in poverty because that's what happened last time."
Luxon said: "We care about these people."
"We love these people, we want them to flourish and we actually need to make sure they're clear about the obligations."
National saying they want to help Kiwis to flourish, despite evidence that sanctions do anything but.
