Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 16, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Similar scheme being proposed in m it us v extra Billing in Saskatchewan causes no hardship my by Manfred Jager extra Billing by Saskatchewan Doc tors Hast meant hardships for says David chairman and executive director of the Saskatchewan medical care insurance in a Telephone interview Penman said he has heard of no complaints from the Public owing to extra Billing by the question of assignment and extra Billing arose recently in Mani Toba when the Manitoba medical association presented the provincial government with proposals for a new among the proposals discussed were fee increases and assign ment the right of a doctor to opt in and out of medicare in order to extra Bill those patients who can afford to pay doctors Are allowed to extra but under Saskatchewan medicare patients cannot assign their insurance benefits directly to their doctors and the government is Headset against the medical profession was very keen on assignment at the beginning of medicare and there were difficult negotiations about they never did get assignment and the matter has not come up in recent Penman the real Point is that assignment would give the doctors the Best of both worlds and serve their convenience we must Stop and remember who medicare was set up for in the first place the not the medical doctors Are very much in favor of private but when it comes to balancing advantages and Distad they want things split just a Little too much in their Saskatchewan medicare makes it possible for an opted in physician not Only to act on an opted out basis for patients he feels can afford to pay him More than medicare allows for a Given but also allows him to be opted in for one treatment and opted out the next Day for another which he feels is Worth More than medicare pays Saskatchewan medicare refuses to Deal with the doctor Billing on an opted out that Means Che ques Arent sent directly to the phys As the Saskatchewan plan has never agreed to any Benefit assign ment measures which would Cut the patient out of the1 payment of medicare insurance a doctors account for charges beyond the scale Saskatchewan medi care recognizes Doest become a legally binding obligation on the patient until the physician has sent that patient a statement setting out in full detail exactly what services were rendered and when the care was Penman said extra Billing has de creased to three per cent of the total number of accounts in recent Winnipeg free press december 1978 City news 2nd class Mah registration number 0286 it leaves you breathless Barbara Cansino Sacre Blue Les conservatives held their Din Ner pour be fundraising last tues Day night in the International get that Star speakers were Federal Leader Joe Clark and Manitoba Premier Ster Ling in any the prix file was a a More than people paid for the but half of them didst know what they were the menu was in French with no trans potage Stgermain Aux a salade Grecque Joe Clark had gone was shoving French right Down their Manitoban they had paid to eat a meal they fumes of outrage steamed Over the Faux filet Grille de lowest a cafe de Paris and the the of Lait Norman Friesen of Imperial development expressed disgust this is its not but in used to that because in used to dining in French restau conservative Peter Thiessen Damn right conservative party a mennonite born and raised on borscht in rus is trilingual want to speak in Low German or High Ger and the French menu just went sort of against the i also one with he and his friends prepared a message of protest and a mennonite signed by three tables 30 conservatives and Given to Clark at the the message went something like this on behalf of the German canadians object to the menu being 100 per cent which we do not we would therefore suggest that at the next fundraising dinner to be the menu is printed in Ger the proposed mennonite menu included borscht of that funny soup that they served us probably pea i dont eat it so i dont Farmers noodles with special mennonite in spite of every Thiessen enjoyed the very Good very Lovely Des whatever it was Winnipeg lawyer Kenneth Houston i think it was though it want offensive to i know it was offensive to a lot of particularly the ethnics who Are other than English or French the germans or Ukraine its particularly in this where we have ethnic groups other than French or English of very significant num Bers who Are maintaining their their their Cul on their because it suits them to do and its reasonable to assume that to them the French culture is some thing like a in that it needs a Hothouse in which to provided for at Public expense and that to to present them with a significant portion of a program or proceeding sponsored by a major political if it Doest amount to an it is at least a Faux that Faux William assistant to the Vic president academic at the University of turned Down free tickets to the when informed of be menu you mean soup Aux pois i didst thank i dont believe Why not it just seems straining prob on the other there Are those for whom a crepes co Quilles de pommes Chantilly is a crepes Coquille de pommes Chantilly is a Keith Mccon Nell of the Bay didst even see the and i have been dismayed if id seen same with Harold president of Monarch life Assurance company i didst even see the there was something with a Pic Ture of Joe Clark on it bother me at but i didst look at you go to restaurants and half the menus Are in French or italian and Robert medical director of Monarch want bothered i though he did think the idea was a bit Christmas shopping a continuing series stocking stuffers Little gifts the Young and Young at what is Small and not too dear and Doest rot your Teeth japanese Mcdonalds gift certificates for 50 a Book of 10 for Schmo key night and All Over town from 286 Carlton Street Jasmin soap leaves rocket the four none Felt Marker for children no tiny Pencil sharpeners with animals and Little people designs a tiny bottle of egg shampoo or Coconut Oil shampoo a perfumed love Candle in a red tin heart Black on Silver Ini titled pocket mirrors Plas tic Napkin rings like big red lips or a big Black key perfumed Bath Oil crystals called herbal pm Jasmin lust Musk rhinestone Bobby pins for the disco set Liberty print barrettes a Lucky bean tiny Ivory elephants in a tiny red bean and Yum Yum gourmet Jelly Beans which taste like cinnamon Peanut butter 90 cents for for a 121 Osborne has sea Bath Oil salts in a Pink White Shell Tennis mugs say please dont ask me what the score in not even sure what game were creative 121 Osborne has a bib which says i eat like a horse 121 Osborne has the sexiest toothbrushes in town with Leopard like designs and the the weavers 109 Osborne has fuzzy sheepskin White mice 103 has hair Combs with Satin roses the White 128 Osborne has exotic incense fresh Bayberry the elegant 443 Strad Brook has some Good soaps Bubble gum scented soap elephant soap French Fries soap Fortune cookies the gallery shop in the Winnipeg Art gallery has dont forget painted wooden clothespins Little mirrors say nobody per or worlds greatest Tennis or we need each other Jungle soap comes in lion lather or Gater class room jokers will like the Little round pocket sized which go or tweet or Baa when turned Over 95 painted thimbles Are 95 zoo goo Finger paint suds Are and tiny folding scissors in a Little Box Are colonel Bod Cocks Glycerine soap with Vitamin e and Avocado Oil hypo allergenic is and five Small Waterloo and has thex travel tooth Brush and the Little recovery kit which contains fir staid for overindulgence in food or fun and fatigue an instant beef and other things needed at the end of the photo by Paul Deleske students from John Dafoe school present a scene from a nativity play on Friday in the geriatric Ward of the health medical chief criticizes health study Winnipeg chief medical health of Roper has criticized sections of a joint Cit pro Vinci Al task Force report on health services in the in a Brief to the task Cadham said the report lacks supporting aviation group director resigns de executive director of the Manitoba aviation re signed expressing frustration with Lack of facilities and the location of an who has been executive director of the aviation Council since it was formed in complained of Lack of support from the aviation Industry and provincial his resignation will be effective the aviation world Doest seem to give any strength to promotion of its he said in an inter makeup of the Council Board which some members say no longer reflects the aviation Industry has resulted in Many resignations from director one member said it has been taken Over by Wheeler dealers who Are talking loudly about the same things Thornhill has been trying to accomplish since the Council president George Whitman said in an interview the Board had asked Thornhill to Whitman refused further saying he was Busy with company Jobin to hold annual levee lieutenant governor Bud Jobin and his wife will receive guests in the legislative building new years Day during their annual new years to Mark the International year of the a special invitation will go out to All children this everyone is Welcome to Call on the lieutenant governor Between and members of the clergy and consular corps will be received at government House be tween 1 and 2 statistical data and contained state ments made a bit Cadham urged careful study before implementing the which is being kept confidential As a working without calling for sweeping changes in existing the re port recommends the City Send its four nurses and some statistics staff to the provincial health the province would take Over environmental and occupational health inspections and the City departments dental services if a provincial dental plan is the medical health officer said he would drastically oppose moving the nutritionist to the provincial de and disagrees with the reports assertion the Public health inspection program is not Preven the report Points out the City Nurs ing program is overwhelmingly in vested in school health services in the inner suggesting areas of future cutbacks but avoiding making that recommendation councillor Jim Ragsdill ind Epen Heights said he Hopes the report will be implemented by March and that he expects health inspection services to improve for suburban areas As soon As City inspectors take he said City inspectors would shorten response time to overnight from the present months it now takes provincial inspectors to investigate a citizens complaint of indiscriminate derelict vehicles and food or Hospital fire safety work i the Manitoba health services com Mission has approved a project to up Grade fire safety standards at Winni pegs municipal health minister Bud Sher Man said Friday the work will consist of augmenting the present fire alarm system with heat or smoke detectors in storage areas and Annunciator panels at fire doors in improving the fire ratings of stairwells and replacing hallway ceilings with noncombustible work will be carried out in the King Princess Elizabeth and a Ting George As Well As the powerhouse and nurses contractor for the project is Sanjor construction of of Kris expected to begin this month an be finished by the project is the first of several planned for upgrading fire standards in Winnipeg Sherman said the projects will Cost about drug directorate eliminated studies end Ottawa cuts off research funds by Brian Cole the Federal government has eliminated the nonmedical use of drugs leaving hundreds of Canadian researchers without Money to continue their the loss of the directorates million budget ends major research into cigarette smoking and the use of Bill a of the department of pharmacology at the University of Man said the directorate was responsible for funding about 200 projects a including studies on the effects of alcohol and cigarette smoke on the fetus and the treatment of said a former member of the the Cut has also stalled other including the medical application of marijuana for the treat ment of anorexia Nerosa and a study concerning the contamination of including Chil by those who anorexia Nerosa is a personality usually classified As an hysterical which leads in mostly Young to diet themselves to the Brinkos with Money from the Davidson had planned to study whether or one of the plants 250 could in Duce victims to begin eating Davidson said Canada already spends less of its Gross National product on medical research then any Western Davidson said the governments decision was particularly sneaky because the demise of the director ate want made the decision became known after a whose application was contacted the Feder Al health department to see Why Money was slow in Davidson said the researcher was told by another Branch of the department that the nonmedical use of drugs directorate no longer exists and its funds had been with this is after someone is told they were getting the Davidson Davidson said he want aware of the directorates demise until he received a letter five months the government has As far As were its the nonmedical use of drugs no major social we care less Davidson said in an two of the most damaging drugs we have Are alcohol and cigarettes and yet Treyve said get he he said the Public Hast heard any protests Over the elimination of the directorate because civil ser who May have lost their jobs were absorbed into another Branch of the health and welfare Only the approximately 300 re searchers throughout Canada were financially Hurt and they dont constitute a powerful enough group to pressure the government into changing the Davidson Davidson slammed the govern ment for eliminating research from its list of the elimination of the directorate also Means Many researchers will Channel their talents to other areas of research or will leave the coun try ;