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Show 00 PHYSICIANS DON'T AGREE English National Insurance Insur-ance Act Causes a Very Serious Split London, Jan 11 The decision of the council of the British Medical association as-sociation not to work through the Insurance In-surance committees set up by the national na-tional insurance act. because of their disagreement with the terms of compensation com-pensation offered by the government, has caused a serious split In the association. as-sociation. After long negotiations and a plebiscite ple-biscite of the profession in which the majority of doctors voting decided against accepting the government's terms, the council submitted an alternative alter-native policy which gave the various divisions of the association freedom (o negotiate with the Insured persons or their representatives) the approved societies The government refused to consent to an such arrangement and proceeded to the formation of panels of medical men willing to work under tb a t, and announced that in any area where there were not sufficient doctors accepting their terms, to make other provision for gising medii l! benefit to all Insured persons who re quire it after January 16, the date on which the benefits come into effect in most of the large ities the ko emment has found no difficulty in oh taining sufficient doctors to act, and in some districts all the doctors have accepted the terms It is in the country coun-try districts, where the old Fashioned practitioner still has a complete monopoly mo-nopoly of the practice, that the great-es great-es difficulty will be found. Those who have accepted the government B terms Inn e formed the National Practitioner's Prac-titioner's association and have with drawn from the older association lu the first plebiscite the doctors oted by an overwhelming majority against the plan on the ground that the fees were not large enough The government govern-ment partially met this objection by inrrp-naing the fees, but the doctors were still dissatisfied and they fought hard for more, another plebiscite was taken, and while a majority of those who voted were against falling In under the new scale of fee;., a stli greater majority abstained It la these abstainers, with the minority in Unvoting, Un-voting, upon whom the government is now relying. Mr Lloyd George, the sponsor of the act, expresses conft dence that he will secure sufficient doctors, but sajs if he does not he will establish national medical service |