NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL.
ATTITUDE OF THE DOCTORS. Bs Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London, June 2. In connection with the National Insurance Bill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, attended a special meeting of the British Meuical Association. The doctors demanded that they .be entirely freed from friendly societies. Mr. Lloyd-George was favourable, suggesting that they be under a local committee, but be disagreed with the proposal that all persons earning more than forty shillings a week be excluded from the benefits of the Bill. Mr. Lloyd-George agreed that an insured patient should bo free in regard to the choice of a doctor, subject to safeguards against such choice, of a doctor encouraging malingering.
In the House of Commons, Mr. .Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, offered facilities to assist the Government in amending and.carrying the National Insurance Bill. ,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1145, 5 June 1911, Page 5
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136NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1145, 5 June 1911, Page 5
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