User-pays medicine
Sir, —It seems there is nothing sacred from’what has become a very contagious disease, userpays. The support from a Christchurch cardiologist, Dr Hamid Ikram (January 24), for the user to pay in medicine would be a step backward. One of the many great achievements of the first Labour Government was ■socialised medicine. Now that we have become a very sophisticated and less caring society, socialised medicine is no longer fashionable for the well-heeled people. That is precisely why the ordinary people must participate in this ongoing debate on our public health system, otherwise we will end up with a similar health system to that of the United States. There is no place in a civilised country like New Zealand for a health* system that discriminates against the poor. — Yours, etc., PATRICK MOONEY. Johnsonville, January 31, 1987.
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