FREE MEDICINE PLAN
LIMITATIONS OPPOSED SYDNEY, April 26. The free medicine scheme to be introduced by the Government might be very well as an idea but the British Medical Association must oppose it where it attacked the efficiency of the medical profession and the doctors' right to prescribe freely in the best interests of his patient, said Dr. J. G. Hunter, secretary of the association. Pie said he believed that the scheme was arbitrarily to squeeze the entire nation’s medicine bill into limits that fitted the Budget. The association had never opposed a free medicine scheme as such, and since 1944 had been putting its views before the Government. It was suggested by the association and refused by the Government that the Government should provide and nay for costly but vital drugs such as the sulpha group, penicillin, insulin and liver extract. He believed that the Government's refusal was on the score of the cost involved.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22622, 27 April 1948, Page 5
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