DOCTORS' BILLS
PATIENTS NOT PAYING
A "BLACK LIST" SUGGESTION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH January 10,
Alarmed because patients have ceased to pay bills because of the Social Security Act, it is understood that several New" Plymouth doctors may "black-list" those patients and refuse to take them on their panels.
A leading New Plymouth doctor said: Many people who could well afford to pay bills are not doing so. Some ac^ally hinted that they thought it would' not matter after the Act was in operation. Were it a case of people not being in a position to meet accounts when due every consideration would be given them.
Asked if there was any suggestion of a Dominion-wide boycott of nonpaying patients the doctor said he could not say, but he understood that similar difficulty was being experienced elsewhere.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 8, 11 January 1939, Page 8
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