INSURANCE BILL
CABLE NEWS,
United Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
THE DOCTORS' DEMAND.
MR LLOYD-GEORGE DISAGREES
(Received June 3, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, June 2
In connection with the National Insurance Bill, the Chancellor of the Exehequer, Mr Lloyd-George, attended a special meeting of tho British Medical Association.
! The doctors demanded that they be I'entirely freed from friendly socieI ties.
Mr Lloyd-George was favourable, suggesting that they be under a local committee, but he disagreed with the ptoposal that all persons earning more than forty shillings a week be excluded from the benefits of the Bill.
Mr Lloyd-George agreed that an insured patient should be. free in regard to the choice of a doctor, subject to safeguards against such choice of a doctor encouraging malingering. In the House of Commons, Mr Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, offered facilities to assist the Government in amending and carrying the National Insurance.Bill.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10254, 5 June 1911, Page 5
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