Show Doctors Implement Statewide Welfare- Welfare Old Age Medical Care Study Physicians from five c coun counties counties ties have been named by th the e Utah State Medical Association Association r tion to an investigative e committee commit commit- tee which will supplement a I r current study of the statewide e medical welfare program by giving giving giving ing special attention n to the pr problems problems pro pro- o- o of the Indigent aged Dr SA I Theodore eodore Johnson Weber county county coun coun- It ty physician will serve as chair chairman r rs man of the new committee A 4 group charged with studying th the e i broader problems of providing g 0 improved medical care for th the e ex tJi a aged has been at work some si six x months The committee headed heade d by the Weber county physician n r. r will collect data on medical cart care car e t currently being accorded age aged d welfare recipients will summarize summarize ize the worthiness and faults o of f j 1 the present and suggest possible changes Member of the committee inA in include in- in A elude clude the county physician o of f Salt Lake Weber Box gan and Utah counties as well wel 1 as officers of the Utah State Stat e Medical Association In parallel action the Medical Medica 1 Association has formally asked aske Gov George Dewey Clyde t to o 5 call calla a statewide conference o of f persons interested in the problems problems problems b- b lems of medical care for welfare welfare welfare wel wel- fare recipients especially as conJ concerns con con- J cerns senior citizens The Utah State Medical Association is alo al also al- al so 0 o on on record favoring the use i of prepaid medical care such as the Blue Cross-Blue Cross Shield programs pro pro- 8 I grams to eliminate waste duplication duplication du du- and confusion and provide provide pro pro- 4 vide better medical medic l care f for o x such senior citizens The study committee was formed formed for for- med fried following complaints from county physicians and o 0 t h her er I medical men concerning overlapping overlapping overlapping over over- I lapping of authority and duplication duplication cation In the spending of tax monies for the present medical welfare program which involves federal state and county funds The present Welfare Medical Program in which Utah physicians physIcians physicians participate went Into operation op- op op operation July 1957 on a year two-year op-I op trial basis |