Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 20, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba By Manfred Jager Manitoba doctors Are filing a class grievance against the Manitoba health services commission Over its refusal to pay House Call charges filed after doctors went on strike last John executive director of the Manitoba medical said yesterday the Mma wants the com missions medical review committee to adjudicate the disputed Laplume said Mma officials Are still determining How Many doctors and How Many individual House Calls will be involved in the class it could be a matter of More than 20 he some of them have Only one or two claims in others have More than we realize the commission backed off on the vast majority of claims they initially didst want to said la we intend to pursue All of Laplume said the Mma sees the dispute with the commission Over the claims As an attempt by the commis Ymme for House Calls Sion to intimidate and Gordon associate executive director of the said medicare received claims for House Calls after five Days of strike action by Manitoba doctors last the action was taken to press Mma demands for a system of binding arbitration in fee disputes Between the commission and Mccaffrey said the commission paid of the claims after determining they were unrelated to the in another doctors were asked to Supply additional information Why the House Calls were necessary on the strike medicare subsequently paid 941 of the commission did not hear Back from doctors who had 196 House Call claims returned to a doctor can charge per Hou As Well As for any services performed during a the health commission is not questioning charges for any medical treatment Given Dur ing Calls to Homes on strike Only the fee for the House Calls 47dead in Beirut sunny today 15 Clear tonight 2 april 1983 a Volm no 119 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 it works budget incentives designed to help private sector Spur National recovery by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa finance minister Marc Lalonde unveiled a program last night de signed to encourage Industry to Lead the Way to economic the Centrepiece of Lalonde seven volume which projects a billion spending deficit for is a program of capita intensive projects and incentives to business to create thousands of new Federal spending on More than 100 capita intensive projects in the Public sector during the next four years is pegged at and a further billion is set aside for similar private sector investment through a new tax recovery the Public sector portion includes million already allocated to various As the government announced a direct Job Crea Tion package which earmarks an additional million for unemployed who make up 25 per cent of the country the extra million to be spent in 198384 brings budget83 d Lalonde budget offers intelligence and courage when both Are says any decision to inject Federal Money into a major Winnipeg development is at least a month d Road to recovery pushes projected deficit to record Federal spending on direct Job creation to who had promised Job Crea Tion would get top admitted after presenting his budget that any significant Relief for the jobless canadians will have to wait until the benefits have trickled Down through business in the form of in creased economic lasting recovery and the significant reduction of unemployment we need will come primarily through the private sector the Economys main engine of he jobs predicted employment minister Lloyd a worthy was quoted by the Canadian press As saying that when everything is included capital housing and direct Job creation up to new jobs should be created this but a finance department official said the direct Job creation Effort will have virtually no Impact on the unemployment now at per Lalonde in his budget speech said the unemployment rate is expected to average per cent this year and drop to Only per cent next Lalonde said he wanted to provide the right mix of economic stimulus in a fiscally responsible this is a matter of Deli Cate judgment and there is no absolutely Correct he if i err in this i want to do it on the Side of More Lalonde referred to his package Sev eral times As a recovery the document is written As a mixture of responsibility and moderate stimulus designed to put canadians in a psychological Frame of mind to get the Economy moving it was also designed to reassure Wall Street and was beamed to selected business leaders in the United states at parties in the Canadian embassy and at the new York the deficit is up from an estimated billion in the 198283 fiscal year which ended March Lalonde said the program see budget Page 4 billion Over four years in capita intensive projects and incentives to business to create jobs budget highlights new my Basing plan endorsed by Reagan los Angeles times Washington president Reagan endorsed a plan yesterday to put 100 my intercontinental ballistic missiles in minuteman missile silos in Nebras bikers vow to disobey helmet Law by David Obrien Abdulj bikers and their porters swamped the grounds of the legislative building last vowing to disobey the provinces proposed compulsory helmet the frequently using vulgar and abusive shouted Down every speaker except protest organizer Brian Robertson said he would ignore the if and he asked the gathering if they would support youre Damn right we some As the entire group blew horns and revved see you in they yelled at highways minister Sam who is expected to introduce the legislation for first Reading see helmet Page 4 a and saying that the so Viet Union will have no incentive to negotiate nuclear arms reductions unless the United states modernizes its land based missile accepting All the major recommendations of a Blu ribbon Reagan set the stage for his administrations third Effort to get Congress to approve deployment of 86tonne 95ton which is de signed to carry 10 warheads More than Congress has 45 Days to accept or reject the fifth Basing plan devised by strategic weapons experts since the missile itself was first proposed by the Nixon adm Nistra 4 million Over two years on direct Job creation including million for youth child care expense tax deduction will be doubled to per child to a maximum of per family the child tax credit will be raised to per child in 1983 4 automatic tax deduction for medical expenses and charitable donations will be eliminated in 4 6 sales tax will be imposed july 1 on monthly fees for Cable television and payt service Canadian tourists will be allowed Worth of goods duty free every three months to a maximum of a year 4the Canada Home renovation which provides Grants of up to to cover 30 per cent of Home renovation costs for Lowland Middle income will be extended to March Las minute revisions enrage pcs Ottawa up opposition maps lambasted what they dubbed the save Lalonde business was generally but the country most Power Ful labor Leader seemed most disappointed of All in finance minister Marc Lalonde first Las minute changes Are disgusting and serve Only As an Effort to save the political hide from the Bud get leak threatening his progressive conservatives said yester former party Leader Joe Clark called Lalonde lion addition to the budgets original recovery program a 200 million Dollar Job saving measure for one opposition Leader Erik Nielsen said the made after a Daylong furore Over the budget leak and repeated opposition demands for la Londes is shallow deep while tory finance critic Pat Carney approved of the emphasis on the Pri vate sector and the Young her party had Little Praise for a budget they seemed an Effort to save not Only Lalonde but the elector Al fortunes of a tired Liberal govern the new democrats had less to say about the political aspects of the Bud get and Lalonde Las minute but also expressed displeasure with the new economic nip Leader de Broadbent said the budget lacks Long Range strategy and is clearly not going to meet the needs of the that concern was perhaps More dramatically by Dennis Mcoder the country most powerful labor he described the budget As a ultraconservative approach to a Des Perate economic situation and complained that canadians Are being expected to bleed some they completely overlooked the said head of the Twohill nonmember Canadian labor nip finance critic Nelson Riis applauded the measures to improve Busi Ness but said that Overall the budget fails to give the Economy badly needed the recovery program is a drop in the he business leaders generally praised the budget As positive and c Telic forces after meeting with Gressional leaders of both who assured him that Congress will proceed immediately with consideration of the make no mistake about the president said As he announced his expected endorsement of the unless we modernize our land based missile the soviet Union will have no real reason to negotiate meaningful if we fail to we cannot reasonably expect an accept Able outcome in any arms control negotiation and we will also weaken the deterrent posture that has preserved see congressmen Page 4 3r receives on wee judge postpones seizure order so Edwin Man can negotiate with creditor Andy Becq in Peg free press Edwin Bryce Payne stood quietly outside in his stocking feet yester surveying the farm Hes been Given a we Klong Chance to something Good is going to come from it for All said the reflecting on two Days of Tough negotiations and a confrontation with a receiver who wanted to seize his equip ment and the beleaguered Farmer yesterday won a Legal allowing him a Chance to save his Cash crop and pig Justice Vern Simonsen of court of Queens Bench granted a weeks breathing space after learning the por Tage credit Paynes major secured was willing to give the Farmer another under the terms of judge Simon Sens receiver Clarkson and act ing on behalf of the credit cannot seize any of Paynes property until next wednesday at the a Clear Victory seemed to escape the Canadian farm survival which Drew National at Tention to Paynes plight after it blockaded entrances to the 120 kilo metres Southwest of with vehicles sunday association Vic president Don hol Gerson told reporters yesterday it might be the Best thing to allow the receiver to take Paynes equipment and reduce some of his farm up until Early he under stood Paynes debts amounted to but the total debt for the Section of livestock and equipment exceeds Holgerson said if the association had known Paynes full financial its actions would have been More layoffs Manitoba forestry resources Plant workers at the Pas May face three layoffs this year instead of two predicted doctor is in Linda resident physician of themels occupational health stands on medicines front Blue blues j Viet Battle buying Louis blues Ujj vietnamese troops May be easier than Ujj were locked in Battle Selling Saskatoon or j on two fronts its group to the rest of i the says the president of the Index Ann 18 31 34 38 55 38 6 24 perhaps trying to find some Way of restructuring his i maybe the association has to eat a Little Crow he one Farmer at the farm suggested the association has lost All credibility by backing after a the survival association executive said As a show of Good it should remove its Block Ade during the but it was not until after the court decision was heard that the trucks were Payne pointed out later until his brother fell the debt on their farm see provincial Page 4 7 Jumble 42 25 26 47 sports 54 35 17 to 31 ;