MEDICAL BENEFITS
Sir, — Mr. C. E. Major has no prerogative to ciiticiso other correspondents for "ignoring crucial issues' 1 insofar as he and others it. seems to me deliberately ignore, one of the most crucial issues of this vexed question, one which does not depend on the consent of private practitioners or the British Medical Association. This is the obligation of out-patients at the public hospitals to pay for X-ray services, eye, ear and throat treatment, minor dressings and attention. The community has had to pay through these organs for quite a long time into the State Treasury before even any kind of medical service was made available. Seeing it is a "constitutionally-elec-ted" Labour Government that is in power. 1 suppose we should all be delighted to go on enduring to see them wield the big stick in this and other ways, and continue paying two guineas for X-ray examinations. Further, what right lias a State Treasury any more than a private monopolist to charge toll for goods which, as Mr. Algie correctly indicates, have not been delivered? Seventy thousand pounds are being spent on n luxury-liner-radio-station. How much has been allocated to increased hospital accommodation?' J. Ore.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23883, 6 February 1941, Page 11
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