DRUG COSTS IN N.Z.
Price Control Suggested (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 9. An investigating committee to survey New Zealand’s health services and the care of the aged, to ensure the needs of people were being adequately met by Social Security, will be sought by the Labour Party. The party’s annual conference today also decided to refer to its Parliamentary wing the question of price control for drugs and the possibility of a State-owned drug industry. The Parliamentary wing will also be asked to consider increasing pensions and the allowable income of age beneficiaries and war veterans.
The party also believes that a Labour Government should investigate funeral charges. The conference decided to ask its Parliamentary party to investigate the possibility of bringing all dental and optical treatment under Social Security. It considered the free medical service should be extended, when and where practicable, to include psychiatrists, and that all prescribed drugs should be covered by Social Security.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30127, 10 May 1963, Page 14
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