Charge For Prescriptions
Sir, —Dr. Lindsay Brown, president of the 8.M.A., show’s how much his organisation is out of touch with medical realities and human values. Obviously all medicines paid for under the pharmaceutical benefit are thought to be necessary by the doctors prescribing them, and the drug bill can be reduced only by the same doctors prescribing less. The B.M.A. apparently wants the
reduction to be made, not by discipline or the voluntary action of its individual members, but by economic pressure on the sick. A surcharge on prescriptions would react most strongly on those least able to afford it. Already the doctors have wrecked the principle of free medical treatment, which was supported by both political parties in New Zealand, and this blatant negation of democracy, too, hits hardest at age beneficiaries and others on low incomes.—Yours, " VARIAN J. WILSON. August 9, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31135, 11 August 1966, Page 16
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