SOCIALISED MEDICINE
Sir.—lt does not cost the taxpayer £l3 per week for each hospital patient, as stated by Mr Murdoch, and I would like to know where he gets his information from. This would be checked more effectively if the hospital boards would improve the conditions of their TB shelters. I can assure Mr Murdoch that very few of tne 23,000 people in hospitals each day would be there if the National Party became the Government. It would not provide free hospital treatment, as Mr S. G. Holland called the Social Security Act “ applied lunacy ” in the House of Representatives in 1938, and declared in a speech during the 1938 general election campaign that the National Party would not operate the said Act if it became the Government.—l am, etc., Ashburton. Labourite.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27241, 18 November 1949, Page 9
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