DOCTOR SOUNDS WARNING
HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN
OBJECTION TO METHODS
VITAL TO DOMINION
(Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day.
Though the medical profession favoured a health insurance scheme covering some sections of the community it did not approve of the system now proposed by the Government, and it saw no reason for taxing every member of the community to pay for such a scheme, said Dr. R. Cashmore, chairman of the Hastings branch ol the British Medical Association in addressing the Hastings Rotary Club yesterday afternoon.
Most doctors were against the proposed scheme, he said, and man> would leave the country rather than work under it although they would get more money from it than tney were now receiving. It was not any financial consideration which was influencing them. They were acting in the interests of the health of the country.
Under the-scheme the doctors would become too busy to give individual patients the attention they deserved, and the elimination of competition would remove the incentive to study and undertake constant research. The Government was making a beginning bv socialising the doctors because they were the smallest body in the country and their votes counted for nothing.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19397, 7 August 1937, Page 5
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