Health is one of the major budget items, with $11.1 billion over the next four years.
It's the biggest government investment in health to date with a huge focus on creating Health NZ and a Māori Health Authority.
Health NZ, which will replace the District Health Boards, will get $3.1 billion in funding over the next two years.
And Pharmac, the government's drug buying agency will receive an extra $191 million, taking its total funding to $1.2 billion.
Outside Parliament on Thursday a group of about 30 people - some of whom have rare diseases - were keenly awaiting news of the Pharmac funding.
On a cold and windy day in the capital - the group were wearing beanies reading: "let them live".
Malcolm Mulholland's wife Wiki died of breast cancer last year after spending her final months campaigning for better access to medications that Pharmac does not fund but are available in places like Australia.
