Medical care
Sir.-Having re-read the excellent article by Peter Smith of the Southern Cross health insurance organisation. I must take issue with your correspondent, F. McGrath (August 4). Nowhere did Mr Smith state "that by increasing the care paid for through the private sector, health care in New Zealand would be cheaper,” and it is quite incorrect to put that construction on his comments. What he did clearly convey was simply that if the State cannot afford the everincreasing cost of the nation’s health bill, then it would fall even more on the private sector (including health insurance) to play a growing role in channelling further resources into over-all health spending. As for Mr McGrath's continued
insistence that health insurance for a four-person family costs up to $4OO per annum, my current pay slip for that very cover at the top Southern Cross scale shows a deduction of $6.96 a fortnight which works out at $180.96 for a year. — Yours, etc..
L. G. ROBINSON. August 4, 1982.
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