MEDICAL BILL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1941, Page 2

MEDICAL BILL

SUPPORT FOR GOVERNMENT. LYTTELTON RESOLUTION. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 30. A largely-attende’d meeting of waterside workers, seamen and harbour board employees held at Lyttelton today adopted the following resolution unanimously:— “That this meeting of waterside workers, seamen and harbour board employees pledges its full support to the Government’s free medical service Bill, and congratulates it on its great work on behalf of me sick and suffering, and trusts the doctors will see their way clear ro co-operate with the Government in seeing that a free medical service is given to the people of this Dominion.” OAMARU DECISION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN. September 30. A public meeting held in Oamaru tonight to discuss the Doctors’ Bill expressed opposition to the Government’s scheme for a general medical service but welcomed the principle of national health insurance as a further improvement of the already high standard of medical practice in the Dominion. The last two clauses of a long resolution adopted were as follows: — “In the event of a national health insurance scheme being agreed upon with the consent of the majority of doctors, both at home and overseas, this meeting is of opinion that even so the freedom of the minority should be respected so that anyone who chooses could continue to practice outside the scheme; that coercion of any section of the community is abhorrent and that any trade agreement which does not provide for submission of disputes to arbitration is contrary to all democratic tradition and principles.”