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...Swiss-born jurist, Jean Louis DeLolme, once declared that a British legislature "can do everything except make a woman into a man or a man into a woman." Last week, as angry doctors in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan went into the second week of their strike against a new, compulsory state medical insurance plan, Premier Woodrow Lloyd's socialist government stoutly refused to give way on its plan. But the emerging question was whether-as happened with Prohibition-any legislation can be effective without the consent of the people it most closely concerns...
When the original socialized medicine proposals were drawn up by a twelve-man committee (including three doctors from the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons), then Premier Tommy Douglas promised that the program would have to be "acceptable both to those providing the service and those receiving it." Instead, after he ran for re-election in June 1960, Douglas got a favorable interim report from the committee majority, and blithely ignored the three doctor members who opposed it. This past history is one reason why Saskatchewan doctors are now leary of the government's promise to take the doctors...
Doctors United. Saskatchewan's College of Physicians and Surgeons denounced the plan as "peacetime conscription," saw in the act "an ingenuous method of controlling doctors and the practice of medicine in a political, economic and legislative sense." So fiercely did they oppose the plan that when Douglas resigned to lead Canada's New Democratic Party last November, his successor, Premier Woodrow Stanley Lloyd, postponed its scheduled start, offered to tone down the administrative commission's powers, and to allow doctors to practice outside the plan. The doctors found the act still "unacceptable...
...group of New Jersey doctors against President Kennedy's medicare, applauded the prairie doctors' "fine example." But in both Canada and the U.S., many questioned the doctors' tactics. In Boston, Dr. Richard Ford, associate clinical professor of legal medicine at Harvard, volunteered to fly to Saskatchewan to investigate any deaths "that may be related to professional negligence by delinquent physicians." Dr. Gerhard . T. Beck, 53, left his yacht in Jacksonville, Fla., and flew to Regina to help, declaring: "It is not our professional prerogative to desert our patients...
...strike's first six days, the doctors and government communicated mainly by trading angry press communiques. Dr. Harold Dalgleish, president of the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons, demanded that the act "be withdrawn while doctors are still available who are not fully committed to leave Saskatchewan." But at week's end the doctors had not softened their tone, nor had Premier Lloyd. Said the premier: "This is no longer just a matter of medical care service. It is now an outright challenge to the procedures of constitutional government. If one can envisage this spreading to other groups...