European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fag 4 the Stab and stapes tuesday july 30, 1969 first year of Canada medicare qualified Success editor s note a controversial medicare program hat went into effect just Over Ai ear ago in the Canadian prov Ince of Saskatchewan was to / rat opre paid medic no Corethia month. The majority of the province 900 doctors who singed a three week a Trike when the program went into effect july 1 lout year still Are bitterly opposed to 10 cd Allied Medicine. But for All practical  America first state non ored medicare program la a fait comp and opposition now is mostly expressed in bitter denunciations of the plan by doctors who an forced to live with it. In Saskatchewan today that most Hurt is far different fro july of it year when the prov Ince was divided into two n u it ant Camp one supporting to e socialist government of Premier Woodrow s. Lloyd and the other Tho province s College of physicians and surgeons. The Thrift work strike ended in the Saskatoon agreement negotiated by British socialist lord Taylor by which doctors were permitted to practice out Side the act a report from Tho mall nil car Imon Kanrr commission the government Agency  the Art � h o w n d that Only 81 of 788  Ron rom not in want their Mil to the government d n r i n the tint at month of 1963. Prior to medicare n limit half  i nearly one Mil lion residents were covered by private insurance groups. These groups atoll operate but no longer As insurers. The patient who does not wis to Den directly with the govern ment commission usually joins one of the private groups for a Small annual fee $3 for single persons and j5 for families. The groups act solely As buffers be tween the government and the doctors. In effect the government pays All Bills except for a Small minority of private patients much the same As in Britain the commission refused to say How Many doctors were practice ing under the act. However a breakdown of percentages for the first six months of 1963 showed sen. Pastore on the run with 3 committee hats Washington a Dap per Little sen. John o. Put Ora is one of us busiest men in the Senate the. Days hopping nimbly Between comm Tom chair Nan Hilpi dealing with three Cru Cial proposal civil rights Rall and nuclear letting. Pastors u acting chairman of the Commerce committee which i considering both civil rights and rail Legli Laton. Be u Alio an. Jeka o. Rattan in Altman of the joint Senate Housa committee on atomic Energy which la considering us partial nuclear teat ban treaty. It makes or a rather Busy  the 66-year-old Rhode a Juki Democrat told a interviewer. But i Don t consider All this unusual or unique. I spend All my spare time Reading transcripts and Back ground  How does activity of All three Iron shape the senator s Day ill Start off with die com Merce committee civil rights hear ing at 9 15 a then at 10. I la turn u Over to sen. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and go to the meeting on the nuclear treaty fasten Laid a was Happy that his atomic Energy committee would meet with the Senate for. Elm relations and armed ser Trees committees to hear under Secretary of state w. Averell rare Man. Lust Back from mos cow where he represented the United states at the nuclear treaty talks. It Avolda a duplication Pas Tor said. Of course we might have to bring him Back before our committee or greater  at noon the Senate meets and All committee work slope because sen. Strom Thurmond &3.o, it protesting the president s civil rights proposals by preventing the unanimous Content needed Lorthe full Senate and Ita commit Aea to meet simultaneously. Alter the Senate session ends and most senators go Home Pas Tore and the Commerce com Ratte go Back to work on presi Dent Kennedy s leg Talaton to pre vent a rail strike. The meeting la scheduled for 4 p.m., or 7 pin depending on when the sen ate session ends because sen. War Ren & Magnuson. Dwosh of mar Man of the Commerce commit tee fell 111 White Home last week end. Magnusen is in a Seattle Hospital. But Pastore son of an Immi Grant tailor who worked his Way up from delivery boy to the big Gest Vole getter in the state s history in two successful races for governor and three for the Senate hos kept up with his Homework on civil rights judging from the questioning i think Well Pasa this thing barring discrimination in Public accommodations Ullh Only one or two senators in the committee  on rails i think that both sides understand thai the ultimate answer is collective bar gaining. It would be regrettable if we were pushed to passing legislation which would but a unusual precedent and a Shadow on collective  on the nuclear treaty my Only regret 1s that to in l More comprehensive. Bui As car As i goes pm satisfied that 66 per cent of All claim received by the government were handled through the approved agencies. Twenty per cell of the claims were sent by doctor working directly under the act and 14 per cent by  regret the additional Cost to patients whose doctors in Sll on dealing Only through private groups Lloyd said in an inter View. The Premier also said thai the private groups have added  administration costs. The flan u financed by compulsory premiums of 112 for Ingle persons and w4 for Fern ill in addition to a in per in inmate in Tho provincial Salea tax to 5 per ent a Par Een surcharge on Paranal income tax and a 1 per cent increase la corporation tales. Eat Mam coat of the plan for the. Cate adar Yea Tea k to my Alloa. Saskatchewan also pioneered slate Hospital care in Canada in 1947. And the province has a comprehensive Hospital care program in conjunction with the Federal government All of Canada s 10provinces now have some form of Hospital care program. Premiums for Hospital and medicare Plant amount to 173 a year for families and $38 a year for single persons. I am Happy to say that the dire warnings of a year ago have not materialised. Lloyd said. There has been no government interference with the practice of Medicine a soundly the predicted wholesale departures of doctors did not take place. And thirdly enrolment in medical schools inthe province has not dropped off but rather increased. Observers suggest that the most damaging effect of the medicare controversy was the deep dissensions it caused within the medical fraternity. Ironically British doctors Are among the most partisan sup porters and the most diehard opponents of the program. About a third of Saskatchewan s practice ing physicians Are British. Mostof them left a United kingdom when the National health serv ice went into effect la  medicare become Law to Saskatchewan last ear the government recruited about 100 Doc tors in Britain to provide Emer gency services during the strike. Many of them stayed on and most of the new doctors who entered the province during the past year came from Britain. Tvs been rated a Scab Aad a Ira Tor to my country by the anti medicare doctors said or. Davit Road 38, who came to Saskatchewan from London taut year. Road director of the Regina Community health clinic praised the medicare plan be eat a i now can concentrate on the practice of Medicine on the broadest possible front without having to worry about building up a practice.1 the clinics were organized by medicare partisans last year an operate in h centers in Tho prov Ince. The 38 staff doctors work for salaries while the Lay Organ Zerof the clinics collect fees Tor service from the government. The clinics Are the major source of controversy now existing be tween the doctors and govern ment plans Call for distribution of any surplus accruing to the clinic from medicare Lens Between doctors and the clinic. This sort of profit sharing of  fruits of the labors and talents of physicians is anathema tothe doctors of Saskatchewan or. Neville Smith an executive of the College of physicians and surgeons  said the doctors main objection to medicare was a fear of bureaucrat la control of Medicine by left Wing  or. James h. Mclntosh a re Gina general practitioner pointed out that Saskatchewan Law authorizes civil servants to engage in political activity. He said High ranking civil servants including Deputy ministers were Active organizers behind the Community clinics which he  Asa bid to Force the doctors into wholehearted acceptance of Medl. Care. We re not Norald of the Politi  he sold. They will Hove to answer to the people. We re concerned about the doctrinaire socialist dictating medical policy from the lofty isolation of their Ivory  government denies the Doc tors claim of a traits exodus Dur ing the pan year by pointing to figures supplied by the Coll Geof physicians and surgeons. In july this year there were 929doctors registered in the prov. Once against 899 in april 3963, Saskatchewan s popu Atlon has remained almost Static at 936,000 during the same period. Smith said the difference waa net to Quantity Bat in a so Ity of medical Sorrem. Re pointed oat that la oae Belna clinic which employs 45 doctors six highly a pedalled phys Elaas bad left Bee Alae of medicare. Thea included the Only Ade Glat la Beulaa two top notch obstetrician Aad a dermatology at witha Eom mind total of 100 Yean of by Deal Ops Tate. All six Doc tors were replaced Bat by  who Lack the skills and expert pm of those who left exact figures were not Avail Able but a College spokesman said at least 100 doctors had left the province including some of Saskatchewan s Best surgeons and special Suthe doctors maintain that some of their pro medicare colleagues especially die recant arrival from Britain Are guilty of in Ethelca practices such As recruit ing members for the  and advertising their serv ices in local press and broadcast Media. In addition they maintain that the government is guilty of a determined policy of harass ment of the College a recruiting pro medicare doctors in Britain. On the other hand a Royal com Mission under jul slice Mervyn Woods is investigating charges by a number of doctors thai local Hospital boards Are denying the Hospital privileges because of heir pro Modl care stand. Lloyd refused to comment pending the commission s report. I have repeatedly stated tha  willingness to sub Mit the whole controversy of tha practice of me Darlne to an a Oertal Board of inquiry Tea Premier said. We Arn not Afflito have our tract Law investigated but at Tler tank limn we expert the doctors to submit to the Tiaw  the doctors have not accepted Lloyd s Challenge. It is difficult to determine How the average cite urn views the whole subject but medicare at certain to be the major Issue la the next provincial election expected next Spring at the Eaf lest the government Hopes that by then the voters will be in a mood to endorse the plan. I would t be honest if t Sami was not hoping for a Chenga of government,1 said Smith. A real rapprochement with the doctors is not possible with the new democratic party government i am confident thai when Tat dust has settled alter the elec Tion Well still be in the Driver s seat the Premier said. Impartial observers Are coming around to the View that tha pre Mier May be right. A year ago i wat willing to predict that if the do Spute went to the electorate the government would be thrown out on its ear said Charles Bell. Managing Edi Tor of the Liberal Regina Leader Post. Now. I m not so  the outcome is lets certain be cause while criticising the of Ern ment handling of the health crisis a year ago. The opposition Liberal party has not pledge itself to revoke the medicare act. The situation today is Best a. To Robed As an armed truce wit the majority of the doctors Ltd firmly opposed to the principle of socialized Medicine. That atmosphere appears Likely to continue at least until after the next election. Furman non by Toto it it la in 74li Ink luf Moti 1c sail in 7jm. A Tukhi to How 1c 4tu4s. I Sim to j him Simi a i a i film to Nat. In 71u, 049-711ik is 0"" ic1 74u1� in. P oof trial. Ci17, flu Moo. I us ih01and 9ulttl9 at so life 3w. Iso Kaivion slut Usmany Ftp Sci 74�ll. A to Diu. In 77mm, 1c 4sm�, in Mac h0.7s-h, a  l 7 in 7uu w a. 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