HEALTH INSURANCE.
DOCTOR'S HOSTILE ATTITUDE. STATE’S SCHEME OPPOSED. (Special to Times.) HASTINGS. Friday. Though the medical profession favoured a health insurance scheme covering some sections of the community, it did not approve tho system now proposed by the Government, and it saw no reason for taxing every member of the community to pay for such a scheme, said Dr. R. Cashmore, chairman of tho Hastings branch of the British Medical Association, addressing the Hastings Rotary Club this afternoon. Most doctors were ngalnst the proposed scheme, ho said, and many would leave the country rather than work under It, although they would get more money from it than they now were receiving. It was not any financial consideration which was Influencing them. They were acting in tho Interests of tho health of the country. Under the scheme doctors would become too busy to give individual patients the attention they deserved and the elimination of competition would remove tho Incentive to -study and undertake constant research. Tho Government was making a beginning by socialising doctors, said Dr. Cashmore, because they were the smallest body In the country and their votes counted for nothing.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 7
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191HEALTH INSURANCE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 7
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