IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 186, 24 December 1912, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE INSURANCE ACT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, December 22. L\ a repr' "Motive meeting of the Bri: ; h MedWti Association it was decided by 182 votes to 21 to reject the Government's terms. It was resolved that until a uniform scheme was adopted to recouiid-nd the treatment of insured persons conditionally on the latter liavh - l;;e choice of a doctor, either on a ca; iation to sis with a minimum of 8s fld per annum, inclusive of drugs, t>r by attendance on the basis of a minimum of 2s 6d per visit, such minimum not to include tuberculosis patients. THE INSURANCE ACT. PRESS CRITICISM. (P.eceived Dec. 23., 11.25 p.m.) London, December 23. The Chronicle denounces the decision of £': urday's meeting of the Medica/ Association to organise a boycott of inr red patients in all hospitals exceptcases oi urgent illness or the really nece-sitoyj poor. The Daily News violently assails and accuses the Medical Association of syndicalism. It declares that the association will bo outlawed in public opinion iby its own act. The association, and not the Insurance Act, is destined to be '-recked. . The Times says that the root of the trouble is the doctors' refusal to be placed under the heel of lay committees.