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ml bermuda hccorder ~ rssf published bi-weekly price 6d wednesdays !/â€¢ saturdays zgg-gggg eal w volume xxxvm hamilton bermuda wednesday december 20 1961 no 39 compulsory health insurance scheme rapped at protest meeting i b p^f w '- '^ > w,v 3 m ' k jmmr r â– _-_______â– * ____. smr i 111 wkm â– 4 vh rte ________________________â– vl iwl l_i ' p i ______ ' l wsi _____ b '^ 3 hbm ____________________________________________ vpb _____________________________________â– 3 l _^' jdflhf _____________ i ~" *Â«____â– p _________________________â– ' rl v t _______ * f9fl r ____â– ib * w 1 r -â– h l ' r_______________p_______r v ________ â– b : _^* s b i f <*,_______â– â– â– r b>&_h : ;!&:!' '____â– r i w i^bt^h p_nk â€” ,.__. _â– _ r birth control campaign hit in upper house members of the legislative council called for an end to the publicity the department of health is giving to a new contraceptive a part of its cur rent birth control campaign the councillors used suÂ«-h terms as crude shameful and niorallv irresponsible to deplore the campaign the compulsory health insurance scheme recently adopted by stituled about five per cent at the population her feeling was that the percentage was great er than live bin in any case they were her concern the he use of assembly was sharply criticized on monday night at a public protest meeting called by the franchise com mittee "â€¢ a panel of three speakers put torward the view that if the public under penalty of law government was going to force to have health jiimirance gov ernment should operate the scheme as was done in england canada and elsewhere to en sure that the minimum beiu - tits were available to all come and take money out of my pocket to run the hospital mr robinson said he added he ob jectcd to the method proposed and the idea behind it cradle to crave insurance there were in the commun ity a jureat many people wh > would not come under the bill but who would need hospitali zaliou there were the aged the injiiin the unemployed aud those too young to work during consideratiou of the 1962 budget in the upper house the colonial secretary the hon j w sykes said that the way the department ha advertised and distributed a new contraceptive showed little â€¢ regard for religious or moral tet lings of the public he said the argument had been advanced that govern ment compelled persons to in sure cars with private com panics and there had been no kick the risks are not th same and the analogy is not correct mr robinson stated he hoped there were sufficient people in the community to thwart and sidetrack the pro posed scheme are the private insurance companies interested in thes folks t 1 she asked the answer was no she said the private companies were only interested in those they could nial^e i profit on when they ceased to be good risks there was no thing to stoj the companies from dropping a person at the snap of a finger also it did not make sense that a compul sory scheme should only em brace the employed she fav oured health insurance from the cradle to the grave under the proposed scheme the speakers pointed out a large section of the public would be delivered in tin hands of profit-making pri mr sykes said he was not speaking for any church but as a father with young chil dren who listen to the radio and go shopping he consider ed as shocking and corruptive the way the product was be ing displayed in stores vate insurance companies wiil out all desirable guarantees people who needed insurance most such as the unemployed the aired and the chronically ill would be unprotected mr pearman recalled that one of the last things he did while a member of the house was to move that a message be sent to the governor asking that the social security aet 1948 be implemented he sail that in a way he objected to private enterprise taking over such schemes which govern ment says the public must have the panel dr the hon e a cann said he agreed with mr sykes sen timents but he felt the execu tive council should have taken some action in the matter the council came over boards and should call iu the director ot health and indicate its appro val while something had to be done about population con trol the doctor said he thqugh . that in this case the method has left a lot to be desired and he was not in favour of publicizing it any further the meeting held in the lee tare room of st paul's a.m.e church hamilton was a spirit ed one the panel of speaker comprised mr walter robin son m.c.p mrs rosalind wil liams anil mr r l pearman chairman was mr coleridg will iains ba rrist er-at la w . what would happen if a per son having contributed to such a scheme for a number of years gets out of work and befor he could get another job is stricken with illness mrs wil liams asked that person wjould be unprotected under a private scheme whereas government on the other hand would be reaily under its scheme to pro vide necessary relief she felt stipulation should be made for non-cancel policies could nationalize however if private enter prise took over and became only concerned with reaping profits without the public hav ing any say about the benefits he would advocate nationaliz ing the insurance companies â€” then you would hear a cry mr pearman declared among those in th audience were representatives of somers isle insiiranee company whieh has pioneered private health in suranee in bermuda and mr j m s patton m.c.p chair man of the select committee of the house of assembly whi'-h produced the scheme the hous adopted welcome to bermuda â€”- l'.iitish prime minister harold macmillan arriving iu ber muda from london early this morning is wcl coined by his excellency major general sir julian gascoigne he expects to meet i'.s president kennedy tomorrow aud friday for a continuation of their discussions of the interna tional situation the meeting marks the third time j'crinuda will have served as a setting for talks between world leaders lt had been stated by one eonipany the speaker vent on that more than half of the pub lie are now insured with pri vate eompanies if that be the ease she wondered why thÂ«t was a backlog of 8<mk)0 out tâ€”fling in unpaid hills at the hospital if thÂ«Â«w 24,4 we are ti id are now insnn , d"*re not the ones presently drawing on the hospital then the insurance eompanies are making tre mendous profits she felt dr cann said he hoped the governor would put a clamp ou the campaign now that it has achieved its purpose â€” photo by ed kellv if government had instituted its hospitalization scheme years ago mr pearman said today there would have been a sur plus of several thousand pounds which would enable the provision of some of the other social security benefits he felt were needed the scheme requires the em ployed of three or more persons to be responsible for their health insurance hon edmund gibbons felt the way the department had gone about the campaign left much to be desired the com munity he felt had been shock ed and it was time the depart ment piped down christmas messages from london to bermuda mr patton seized an oppoi tunity given by mr williams to answer some of the criticism voiced by the panel macmillan arrives amidst uncertainty of meeting place mr pearman said something ought to be done and he hoped the house would get on with the issue we need insurance and are already 20 years late he stated the panel used as a basis of discussion press reports of the house debate on the insurance scheme mr robinson declared he was not opposed to compul sory insurance as such but he detested being told that he must pay his premium to such and such a private company it was obvious he said that from the press reports it is intended to put the majority of the insured persons in the hands of a com hon f v misiek felt th campaign smacked of crudity and vulgarity and was morally irresponsible paying two ways the colonial secretariat h.-is released the text of christmas messages which have been re ceived from the secretary of state for the colonies aud the minister of transport whieh are as follows : like mr robinson mrs wil liams decried th"e public being compelled to pay two ways for the upkeep of the howpital and she dismissed as fallacious the argument that it would be too expensive for government to set up the machinery to oper atcate its own insurance mrs williams said the fran chise committee was galvan ized into action ly the report that the select committee's re port was adopted by a vote of 17-5 although there was con siderable debate she thought should have opposed it the board hi added merits the strongest possible condem nation lt was difficult to 69 cape the conclusion dr cann drime minister haiold macmillan accompanied by his foreign secretary lord hume and other delegates arrived in the colony shortly before sunrise about 7 a.m today for his meeting with u.s president john f kennedy the meet ing has been scheduled for tomorrow and friday at government house but at press time there was uncertainty whether presi dent kennedy will be able to come here due to the critical illness of his father mr joseph kennedy continued on page 6 from minister of transport the rt hon ernest marplcs m.p 0 her feeling was that some who voted for the report either had not read it or were un aware of what went on in other countries particularly the united kingdom scheme it gives me very great plea sure once again to send season al greetings and good wishes to all members of the merchant navy and particularly to those of you who are spending christmas in clubs and hos tels overseas panv mr patton said nowhere in the report was mention made of private companies but he admitted that it was intended they should figure in the scheme he agreed that the re port was the know all or end all it was also true he add ed that the scheme docs not force people to insure their de pendents ceremonial welcome awaits u.s president mr robinson pointed out that the committee declared i hopes to defray the cost o operating the hospital through the compulsory insurancj scheme she was not opposed to com pulsory insurance as such but only the scheme before the house her concern was about that percentage of the popula tion which could not afford hospital care it was estimated during the debate that this con presideiu keiliiedy's father suffered a stroke yesterday at palm beaeh florid and the president mm from washing ton io be at his bedside last evening lt is expected that a decision on whether the confer nice site will be switched 14 florida is expected to be taken late thi afternoon discussed international situa i mill eh iboratc security arrang _ ments have been made for the coii.ereiice one official esti mated that there is far more security for the 1001 talks than there was for the l!Â»3.'l aiul 1957 conferencci covernmeiit house was sealed off yesterday guard duty is being done by the royal xavy and p.erinda polke on thursday aud fri day the local forces will aug ment the guard seafarers who are abroad at this time will i am sure b grateful to all those who work so hard to give them a friendly welcome wherever they may be especially at christmas objects to underlying idea a typical british ceremonial welcome will be accorded presidest kennedy should he decide to come to bermuda to morrow for his meeting with prime minister harold mac 1 object to the goveriiineii telling me 1 must insure my self and make it an offence if i don't and at the same time howi vcr under any scheme it would be possible to have everybody insured it was for that reason they recommended that th social welfare board be given a grant to meet the needs of indigent people i know i am speaking for you all when i say thank you to all those who spend so much time in helping in merchaut xavy clubs and hostels millan meanwhile plan are being activated locally on the assump tion that the ertteial talks will lake place in l.eriniida already nearly km foreign newspaper lfldio and lelevi.-ion represen tative are in the colony registrar cancels registration of hotel union a guard of honour and baud provided by the local forces will be on hand at the civil air terminal the president will inspect the guard mr patton said he had been trying for two years to get something done and now there was this criticism he said he and some members of his com mittee began their work with a view that government should operate the scheme however they felt that the only thin that the house could be in duced to accept at this time was what was proposed a happy christmas aud a prosperous new year to you all in addition to his foreign secretary prime minister mac millan was accompanied on ihe flight fioin london by sir david ormsby-gore british ambassador washington sir norman brook secretary to the cabinet sir william pen nev head of atomic iirdluu ney head of atomic research laboratory at harwell sir evelvn shiickburgli deputy under secretary foreign of fice mr john russell head ol news depart-best foreign of fice mr philip de ziilueta private secretary to the prime minister mr tan samue principal private secretary to the foreign secretary sir john richardson prime mini the presidential plane is due to arrive at 11 a.m as mr kennedy alights from the plane he will be greated at the steps by the governor the prime minister lady gas coigne and the american con sul general mr george ren ehard he will then receive the royal salute from the guard of honour inspect the guard then it is hoped both he and the prime minister will speak over a public ad dress system from the secretary of state for the colonies the hon regi nald maudling m.p the certificate of registration of the bermuda domestic help and hotel employees union has been cancelled the regis trar of trade unions col w t angelo-thomson announced to day the union of which mr george brown is secretary has its headquarters at parker hall hamilton most of them were at the civil an teiiiinial this morn ing for the arrival i f ' the brit ish deli gft t im it gives me much pleasure to have i â€¢ privilege for the first ti ic to send you and all those a ociated with your wel fare 1 â€¢>' very good wishes for christmas and the new year ' should the president decide to come here a planeload o i.ome go washington corre spondents are due one-hour be fore his arrival the cancellation notice appearing in today's recorder states as follows : he went on to say there wa nothing in law to stop en group operating a mutual in surance company and he per sonally had no objection to there being a blue cross se ii|iliit^^^^^m to whom it may concern ofli ially welcoming prime minister macmillan to bermuda today wa the iovcrnor maj general sir julian gascoigne this marked the second time mr macmillan has come here for a summit meeting the list being in march 195 when he and u.s president eisen'uow â– ;â€¢ take notice that under the provisions of section 10 of the trade union and trade disputes act 1946 i have cancelled the certificate of registration of the bermuda domestic help and hotel employees union for failure to comply with a request mads bv me to produce the account of books of the above-mentioned union and that after today's date the said union ceases to be in active operation except for the purpose of winding up its affairs ter's medical advisor 1 lad secretaries and â– "> coiniuunica staflb wfmenmm minister aim ur be zulueta are staying at gov gcrnment house while th othersareat beriiiudiana hote ne meeting was closed alter a brisk piestion and answer period with the audience parti cipating after meeting a few leeal dignitaries the leaders will be sped to government house to begin their 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ml bermuda hccorder ~ rssf published bi-weekly price 6d wednesdays !/â€¢ saturdays zgg-gggg eal w volume xxxvm hamilton bermuda wednesday december 20 1961 no 39 compulsory health insurance scheme rapped at protest meeting i b p^f w '- '^ > w,v 3 m ' k jmmr r â– _-_______â– * ____. smr i 111 wkm â– 4 vh rte ________________________â– vl iwl l_i ' p i ______ ' l wsi _____ b '^ 3 hbm ____________________________________________ vpb _____________________________________â– 3 l _^' jdflhf _____________ i ~" *Â«____â– p _________________________â– ' rl v t _______ * f9fl r ____â– ib * w 1 r -â– h l ' r_______________p_______r v ________ â– b : _^* s b i f &_h : ;!&:!' '____â– r i w i^bt^h p_nk â€” ,.__. _â– _ r birth control campaign hit in upper house members of the legislative council called for an end to the publicity the department of health is giving to a new contraceptive a part of its cur rent birth control campaign the councillors used suÂ«-h terms as crude shameful and niorallv irresponsible to deplore the campaign the compulsory health insurance scheme recently adopted by stituled about five per cent at the population her feeling was that the percentage was great er than live bin in any case they were her concern the he use of assembly was sharply criticized on monday night at a public protest meeting called by the franchise com mittee "â€¢ a panel of three speakers put torward the view that if the public under penalty of law government was going to force to have health jiimirance gov ernment should operate the scheme as was done in england canada and elsewhere to en sure that the minimum beiu - tits were available to all come and take money out of my pocket to run the hospital mr robinson said he added he ob jectcd to the method proposed and the idea behind it cradle to crave insurance there were in the commun ity a jureat many people wh > would not come under the bill but who would need hospitali zaliou there were the aged the injiiin the unemployed aud those too young to work during consideratiou of the 1962 budget in the upper house the colonial secretary the hon j w sykes said that the way the department ha advertised and distributed a new contraceptive showed little â€¢ regard for religious or moral tet lings of the public he said the argument had been advanced that govern ment compelled persons to in sure cars with private com panics and there had been no kick the risks are not th same and the analogy is not correct mr robinson stated he hoped there were sufficient people in the community to thwart and sidetrack the pro posed scheme are the private insurance companies interested in thes folks t 1 she asked the answer was no she said the private companies were only interested in those they could nial^e i profit on when they ceased to be good risks there was no thing to stoj the companies from dropping a person at the snap of a finger also it did not make sense that a compul sory scheme should only em brace the employed she fav oured health insurance from the cradle to the grave under the proposed scheme the speakers pointed out a large section of the public would be delivered in tin hands of profit-making pri mr sykes said he was not speaking for any church but as a father with young chil dren who listen to the radio and go shopping he consider ed as shocking and corruptive the way the product was be ing displayed in stores vate insurance companies wiil out all desirable guarantees people who needed insurance most such as the unemployed the aired and the chronically ill would be unprotected mr pearman recalled that one of the last things he did while a member of the house was to move that a message be sent to the governor asking that the social security aet 1948 be implemented he sail that in a way he objected to private enterprise taking over such schemes which govern ment says the public must have the panel dr the hon e a cann said he agreed with mr sykes sen timents but he felt the execu tive council should have taken some action in the matter the council came over boards and should call iu the director ot health and indicate its appro val while something had to be done about population con trol the doctor said he thqugh . that in this case the method has left a lot to be desired and he was not in favour of publicizing it any further the meeting held in the lee tare room of st paul's a.m.e church hamilton was a spirit ed one the panel of speaker comprised mr walter robin son m.c.p mrs rosalind wil liams anil mr r l pearman chairman was mr coleridg will iains ba rrist er-at la w . what would happen if a per son having contributed to such a scheme for a number of years gets out of work and befor he could get another job is stricken with illness mrs wil liams asked that person wjould be unprotected under a private scheme whereas government on the other hand would be reaily under its scheme to pro vide necessary relief she felt stipulation should be made for non-cancel policies could nationalize however if private enter prise took over and became only concerned with reaping profits without the public hav ing any say about the benefits he would advocate nationaliz ing the insurance companies â€” then you would hear a cry mr pearman declared among those in th audience were representatives of somers isle insiiranee company whieh has pioneered private health in suranee in bermuda and mr j m s patton m.c.p chair man of the select committee of the house of assembly whi'-h produced the scheme the hous adopted welcome to bermuda â€”- l'.iitish prime minister harold macmillan arriving iu ber muda from london early this morning is wcl coined by his excellency major general sir julian gascoigne he expects to meet i'.s president kennedy tomorrow aud friday for a continuation of their discussions of the interna tional situation the meeting marks the third time j'crinuda will have served as a setting for talks between world leaders lt had been stated by one eonipany the speaker vent on that more than half of the pub lie are now insured with pri vate eompanies if that be the ease she wondered why thÂ«t was a backlog of 8' very good wishes for christmas and the new year ' should the president decide to come here a planeload o i.ome go washington corre spondents are due one-hour be fore his arrival the cancellation notice appearing in today's recorder states as follows : he went on to say there wa nothing in law to stop en group operating a mutual in surance company and he per sonally had no objection to there being a blue cross se ii|iliit^^^^^m to whom it may concern ofli ially welcoming prime minister macmillan to bermuda today wa the iovcrnor maj general sir julian gascoigne this marked the second time mr macmillan has come here for a summit meeting the list being in march 195 when he and u.s president eisen'uow â– ;â€¢ take notice that under the provisions of section 10 of the trade union and trade disputes act 1946 i have cancelled the certificate of registration of the bermuda domestic help and hotel employees union for failure to comply with a request mads bv me to produce the account of books of the above-mentioned union and that after today's date the said union ceases to be in active operation except for the purpose of winding up its affairs ter's medical advisor 1 lad secretaries and â– "> coiniuunica staflb wfmenmm minister aim ur be zulueta are staying at gov gcrnment house while th othersareat beriiiudiana hote ne meeting was closed alter a brisk piestion and answer period with the audience parti cipating after meeting a few leeal dignitaries the leaders will be sped to government house to begin their talks 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