SOCIAL SECURITY
MRS. STEWART'S VIEW
Social security benefits were not gifts from the. State, Mrs. C. C. S. Stewart (Government, Wellington West) said when taking part in the second reading debate on the Finance Bill in the House of Representatives yesterday. The benefits were income Referring to medical benefits, Mrs. Stewart said that every individual should approach a doctor to obtain a contract, and when a doctor refused to enter into a contract under the scheme another should be approached. If all citizens would go on in that way until a doctor who was prepared, to work under the scheme was found it would become a success. The individuals could make the legislation a fact.
Mrs. Stewart added that she. could not understand why the doctors opposed the scheme because it would give them a high standard of living. Roughly, the salaries of doctors under the scheme would be £1300 a year, without any bad debts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 40, 15 August 1941, Page 4
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