Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 19, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 11 Winnipeg free March 1980 More care for elderly urged Canadas health care sys tem must do More to care for the medical needs of an in creasing population of senior the chairman of the Board of Manitoba health organizations told former supreme court Justice Emmett Hall Hall and Malcolm a York University economist and political Sci Are in Winnipeg until tomorrow to conduct hear Ings As part of their coast to coast Federal medicare re which is to be completed by Harry Heaton said be tween 14 and 20 per cent of All acute care Hospital Beds in Manitoba now Are used by patients who require nursing Home care but cant get into personal care Homes because they Are Heaton said there is Statis tical evidence that canadians Over 70 require twice the health care services than do people aged at the rate Cost ratios for health care for the aged Are going the year 2020 will see All available health care dollars spent on senior Citi Heaton he said health facilities ads want Billing right Hall conducts review have experimented with variety of but a per manent solution to the in creasing demand for institutional health care from the older age groups must be by Manfred Jager physicians in the Manitoba medical association want the right to directly Bill those patients who they deem can afford it and collect medicare for appearing before former supreme court Justice Emmett who is reviewing Canadas medicare the associations six Man delegation spent most of its time defending full fee Billing for patients deemed capable of the Mma represents of the provinces in Manitoba a doctor can either opt out of medicare and direct Bill patients or remain within the Mma president Ami Laxdal said Federal legislation should provide for contracting Between provincial govern City ments and taxpayers instead of the present government medical profess Ion relationship which leaves the con Sumer the Federal medical care under which medicare was originally set should be amended to allow doctors to Bill a patient directly and collect the fee from the the patient would be reimbursed by medicare at medicare but would be responsible for the difference Between the Bill and what medicare allows for a As said a doctor should be Able to Bill medicare for treatment rendered to another patient and accept As full payment the medicare which would be paid directly to physicians in Manitoba Are dissatisfied with the government Monopolis tic system into which they were legis he they Are discontented because experience Over the past 10 years clearly indicates that they Are underpaid and at one the doctors were asked who would determine whether a patient could pay a Bill we know our said Morden physician Jim we know if he takes vacation trips or goes we see him drive his we know what his financial position most problems Between provincial governments running medicare sys tems and the medical profession could be eliminated if the contract 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