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Southland Times, Issue 23499, 4 May 1938, Page 16

“There are gross defects in the Government’s health insurance scheme,” stated Mr Frank Macky, president of the Auckland branch of the British Medical Association, at a luncheon arranged by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Auckland. He stated further that his association was prepared at any time to produce a system that would look after that section of the community which needed it. It would be a scheme aiming at complete medical service, and not partial service, as it was with the present proposals, and it could be worked out under several financial schemes. Under it, a man would have to pay some sum, no matter how small, for his medical attention. “It is a fact,” he continued, “that we all respect what we have to pay for. Your motor-car is better than the next man’s simply because you have paid for it, and if a patient is a ‘cash customer’ he will obey your advice, and, in fact, he will get better more quickly.”