INSURANCE ACT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 24 December 1912, Page 5

INSURANCE ACT

GABLE NEWS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

DOCTOR'S TENTATIVE SCHEME. UNTIL UNIFORMITY IS REACHED (Received December 23, 8 a.m.) LONDON, December 22. A representative meeting of the British Medical Association by 182 votes to 21 rejected the Government's refusal terms, and resolved that until a uniform scheme is adopted to recommend the treatment of insureds conditionally on the latter having free choice of doctor, either on the capitation basis or the minimum of 8s Gd per annum, inclusive of drugs or attendance ; a basis of a minimum' of 2s 6d per visit, such minimum not to includo tuberculosis patients. NEWSPAPER CRITICISMS. THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION DOOMED. (Received Last Night, 11.5 o'clock.) LONDON, December 23. _ The Chronicle denounces the deci- , sion of Saturday's meeting of tJhe Me- ] dical Association to organise a boycott of insured patients in all hospitals, excepting cases of urgent illness, or really necessitous poor. [ The Daily News? violently assails the Medical Association, and accuses iit of syndicalism. It declares that the •Yssociation has been outlawed in public ouiuion by its' own act. The Association, and not the Insurance Act, is destined to be wrecked. The Times savs that the root of the trouble i;« the doctors' refusal to be placed under the heel of lay committees.