STATE HEALTH SCHEME

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22109, 3 June 1937, Page 8

STATE HEALTH SCHEME

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir —I read about the State health scheme in "The Press" last week, and a guaranteed income for doctors. Wnat next is the Government going to make compulsory. We cannot call our souls our own these days. To engage a doctor is a personal matter, not one for the Government to interfere with. All I can see its two for the doctors and one for the patients. It will be very nice lor some of tne doctors to sit bade and draw a good income of £2OOO or £3OOO a year. It will be like some of the lodge doctors—as long as their income is there, it does not matter about worrying to get the patient well. Why should everybody be compelled to pay into a health fund? There should be an age limit as with a lodge. If one has to pay £1 a year into this fund for a doctor, where does the medicine come in? I suppose if the doctor finds the patient a little difficult, he will order him or her to a specialist, which adds a little more to the expense. At the same time he is still drawing his good income. I am a worker,’ and have to work hard for the small income I got, and have managed to pay the doctors and chemists, and would rather struggle to do so, as I have no faith in loogc doctors, etc. By the time this Labour Government lias finished taxing us, we shall not have any money to call our own.— Yours, etc., WORKER* May 30, 1937.