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