DOCTORS AND INSURANCE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1503, 27 July 1912, Page 5

DOCTORS AND INSURANCE.

——« EXTRA jM,O'OO,OOO A TEAR OFFERED. By TeleEraph—Press A6Eociatton-CopyriEht London, July 20. Tho Chancellor of tho Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, has expressed his willingness to ask Parliament for ,£4,000,000 per annum extra to satisfy the doctors' demands in connection with the Insurance Act. Tlio Medical Association's resolution does not prevent doctors rendering services .at sanatoria when the arrangements are satisfactory.

The position taken up by tho doctors with reference to the British Insurance Act.is briefly as follows:— No medical man will work tlio Act failing tho granting of their .minimum demands. At a certain date all club and contract doctors will resign their appointments. After that date no insured person will ha treated in tho "out-patient" departments of hospitals. No difference will, however, bo made in tho eate of inpatients and minor accidents and casualties requiring instant attention. Failing a settlement with the Government, (,ho medical profession will establish a "Public Medical Service" of their own for insured persons under tho Act. No person earning , more than £2 a week can. be a. subscriber, but local committee.? may fix a lower income limit. No subscriber is to lje admitted eavo after medical examination. The subscription shall not be less than 3d. per week.' Wives and children of insured persons may join at a subscription of 2d. per week.