Idea not favoured
PA Auckland Scrapping patient subsidies for adults so child benefits can be raised does not appeal to the Minister of Health, Dr Bassett. The Medical Association and other health groups made the suggestion to ensure the child benefit was increased even if the new Government found the “cupboard was bare.” Dr Bassett said Labour believed health care should be available to everyone at a time and place that suited.
“If you take away the GMS (General Medical Services subsidy) for adults then you are effectively raEing, albeit slightly, the cost of an adult consultation,” he said. That would affect the 60 per cent of the unemployed who were aged between 16 and 25, he said. “Anything which had the effect of raEing the cost of their medical attention would not be reasonable. They are not getting to see doctors very much as it is.”
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Press, 29 August 1984, Page 41
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