HEALTH INSURANCE.
COMPULSORY SYSTEM OPPOSED.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Strong criticism of compulsory national health insurance to provide medical, dental and hospital treatment was expressed by Mr P. J. O Regan to-day. Mr O’Regan contends that to suggest that hospitals should he financed out of compulsory contiibutions instead of rates would mean a perpetual wages tax for "hospitals, in place of contributions from landowners, who would gain relief, and they were the very people who should he charged with taxation in the community. He hoped the workers would wake up to the position. He would be surprised if some of the older members of the Labour Party would not realise the dangers involved, and he had noticed with satisfaction that the matter had been adversely discussed at a meeting of the Wellington Trades Council.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 128, 12 March 1936, Page 8
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136HEALTH INSURANCE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 128, 12 March 1936, Page 8
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