HEALTH INSURANCE
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(By Telesrapb
NELSON, This- Day. Speaking before the Nelson Rotary Club, Dr. Jamieson chairman of tho committoe of the British Medical Association set up to inquire into the subject of national health insurance said that where national health insurance rendered necessary assistance it was beneficent and had the support of alj. Thex© was a great danger, however, that systetns applicablo to pldcr indastrial countries, if institutod here, would not give eimilar results under Our condxtionp, and would result in diverting progresg from lilies which would be morp ejectivp at lbsp cost. Dr., Jamieson strongly stressed the point that the subject was essentially non-pqlitical, and he regretted that the method of investigation chosen had not been by a special quallfied body, He regretted also that the nature of the Goyerpmeat 's proposals bad not bi"made pnblie, and be feiirtd this WQllld not be doqe pntil the Bill was draftod, Thp danger thcn was that ppportnnity for dispassionate discussion, "frce fxpm political iufluencej would be gone^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 184, 21 August 1937, Page 5
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