Uintah Basin Standard | 1958-06-19 | Page 9 | Doctors to Push Welfare - Old Age Medical Care

Doctors to push Welfare- old Age medical care Physicians from five counties have been named by the Utah Medical Association to an Investigative committee which will supplement a current study of the statewide medical welfare program Ly giving special attention to the problems of the Indigent Theodore Weber County will serve as chairman of the new A group charged with studying the broader problems of providing improved medical care for the aged has been at work some six The committee headed by the Weber County will collect data on medical care currently being accorded aged welfare will summarize the worthiness and faults of the present and suggestive possible Members of the committee include County of Salt Morgan and Utah as w-ell as officers of the Utah State Medical Its members arc U. R. Salt president-elect of the state James Salt past president of the and Robert M. Salt an officer of the USMA H. C. John R. M. Brigham Frank Chelton S. C. M. and Joseph O. Salt Lake In parallel the Medical Association has formally asked George Dewey Clyde to call a statewide conference of persons interested in the problems of medical care for welfare especially as concerns senior The Utah State Medical Association is on record oring the use of prepaid medical such as the Blue Cross-Blue Shield to duplication and and provide better medical care for such senior The study committee was formed following complaints from County Physicians and other medical men concerning overlapping of authority and duplication in the spending of tax monies for the present medical welfare which involves state and county The present Welfare Medical Program in which Utah participate went into operation 1957 on a two-year trial