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test of prepaid medical plans

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jury. He was taken
to a doctor for treatment, and
later the doctor sent a bill to
the CU and C, which was paid.
Then Walden received “an ad-
ditional bill from the doctor,
asking him to pay some extra
costs. When he did not pay
it, on the advice of his union,
the bill was placed 10 the
hands of @ small collection
agency.

ste union immediately con-
tacted this collection agency
and told them we were taking
up the case with the CU and C,
and asked them to delay fur-
ther action until it was de-
termined if the doctors bill
was valid or not,” said Bill
Stewart, secretary of Marine
“But the firm re~

a street in

Workers. . l

fused to do this, and the case
comes up in Small Debts
Court on October 8.”

Stewart said the union 15
definitely fighting the case, be-
cause the agreement the union
has with the CU and:C and
the agreement
with B.C. District of the Can-
adian Medical Association sets
out the amounts charged for
doctors’ visits, types of oper”
ations, etc. ;

An extract from the minutes
of a reference committee meet-
ing of the Canadian Medical
(B.C. Division)

Association

states: £ ;
“The committee considers

that the CU and C has dis-

charged its responsibilities in
this case and supports the view
of the CU and C that extra
billing is improper where no
prior arrangement exists.”
“Our union,” said Stewart,
“ig mainly concerned with

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heir families to receiv:

ber 8 which, although the amount

tuation of concern to all peo-

e full coverage, with no

those last few words, ‘where ~
‘no prior arrangement exists.’

The CMA position is that if
prior arrangements are made,
it's okay for a doctor to send
in an extra bill.

“We believe this is a defin-
ite threat to the very existence
of prepaid. medical schemes.
It appears to be a breach of
faith on the part of the CMA
after a schedule of fees and

rates has been agreed upon.

between the CU and C and
the CMA.

“Some doctors have even
gone so far as to have a form
prepared, for the patient to
sign. It is easy to: understand
how a patient awaiting treat-
ment might sign’ such a form
without ever reading its con-
tents.”

-Gayway is approved

over citizens protest

“well remember you at
shouted .at. Vancouver City
week when aldermen passed
a permanent Gayway

“Extra chairs had to
to accommodate some 100 ci-
tizens who turned up to pro-
test the rezoning scheme.

Interruptions and heckling
featured the meeting, with
Ald. T. F. Orr, mover of the
motion approving the PNE
board plan, coming under con-
stant fire.

“Before I came here I phon-’
ed a radio station and asked.
them to give this meeting some
publicity,” said one woman in
the audience. They told me I
was wasting my time protest-
ing, as city council had al-
ready decided to back the Gay-
way plan. Is that why Ald.
Orr is covering up his face?”

Spokesmen for various
groups voiced strong objection
to the rezoning scheme.

Jim Cork of Cassiar Rate-
payers’ Association presented
a petition containing 700 names
but aldermen studiously ig-
nored it. Cork said ratepayers

‘opposed rezoning because it

would lower adjacent property
values, detract from the near-
by Hastings Community Cen-
tre, contribute to juvenile de-
linquency and increase traffic
hazards.

Mrs. Eve Burns-Miller, sec-
retary of Central Council of
Ratepayers, stated that the 12
organizations she represented
were opposed to council’s re-
zoning plan.

Maurice Rush, spokesman
for the Hastings East section
of the Labor-Progressive party
said his organization supported
the arguments’ advanced by
Cassiar Ratepayers, and add-
ed:

“The area under review has
not been rezoned for many
years. Why the hurry now? I
charge that this unseemly haste

- can only be connected with a

scheme to hand over parts of
Exhibition Park to private
commercial interests, particu-
larly the American interests
which want to build.a Gay-
way, and also a gas company
which wants to build a service
stations at Hastings and Cas-

election time,” an angry citizen
Council members Monday this
a resolution approving plans for
at the Pacific National Exhibition.

be brought into the committee room

siar. If this. rezoning goes
through it will mean a new
stage in the attempt to com-
mercialize Exhibition Park.”
Robert Bollinger, owner of
the Oaks Park amusement
centre at Portland, Oregon,
who will build and control the
Gayway, claimed that the rol-
ler coaster would be “quiet.”
The audience jeered.
Arihur Turner, CCF MLA
for Vancouver East, asked
council to delay its decision
and consider a metropolitan
plan for amusement centres,
bearing in mind the expected
growth of the Lower Mainland
population and the\need for a
big amusement centre in the

. near future.

But council, on Ald. Orr’s
motion, voted to rezone the
Exhibition Grounds and plunge
ahead with its Gayway and
commercial development
scheme, Site of the Gayway
will be at Hastihgs and Win-
dermere, some 200 yards east
of Hastings Community Cen-
tre, across the-street.

Roofers win strike

An immediate wage increase
of 15' percent with graded in-
creases until July, 1960
brought settlement of the six-
months-old. strike of 50 plant
and warehousemen at Canada
Roof Products here this week.
The men are members of
Teamsters Local 842.

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of the People’s Republic of China

SUNDAY, OCT. 6

Pender Street.

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CONCERT

To be held at Forbidden City, 90 East
Ten-course Chinese
dinner followed by recital and speeches.
Tickets $1 each ob‘ainable at People’s
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BANQUET

To he held at Russian People’s Home,
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Music, songs, fok dances and drama
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Everyone welcome.

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