HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME
STRONG CRITICISM EXPRESSED -(By Telegraph—Press Association) • WELLINGTON, This Day. Strong criticism of compulsory national health insurance to provide for medical and dental hospital treatment was expressed by Mr P. J. O’Regan today. Mr O’Regan contends that to suggest that hospitals should be financed out of compulsory contributions instead of. rates would mean a perpetual wages tax for hospitals, in place of contributions from the land owners,’ who would gain relief and they were the very people who should be charged with taxation in the community. He hoped the workers would wake up to the position. He would be surprised if some of the older members of the Labour Party would not realise the dangers involved and he had noticed with satisfaction that the matter had been adversely discussed at the Wellington Trades Council meeting.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 12 March 1936, Page 7
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137HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 12 March 1936, Page 7
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