CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS
DOCTORS AXD FREEDOM
(To the Editor) Judging by your leader in Saturday's Star you. like many other people. fail to understand the objection that most doctors have to the various schemes for general practitioner service that the Government has put forward. Fees and methods of payments are more or less unimportant items. What most of the doctors are fighting for is their freedom. The Government intends, if possible, to abolish all private practice and so render the doctors helpless if. and when, they become State servants. If they succeed in this the only possible means of making a living will be to work for the State and if perchance a doctor fails to please his master, the Minister, he may be dismissed without redress. He would then become a pensioner under the unemployment benefit scheme. .You advise the doctors to come to some agreement with the Government You should know that the B.Ma. offered to work a scheme which would include everyone who needed it. The Government refused because if did not benefit the rich. Therefore, those needing help were refused the benefits, not by the doctors but by the Labour Government. M.D.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 212, 8 September 1941, Page 6
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