JUSTICE HALL WARNS Medicare threatened in Canada

OTTAWA (UPC) - Universal health care in Canada is doomed unless provincial boards of ar- biration are created to resolve fee schedule squabbles between . the provinces and the medical profession, Mr _ Justice Emmett Hall said Wed- nesday.

In his report on Canadian health services, Hall said the problem of who the provinces or doctors — has the right to set fees could

only be resolved through binding arbitration. Otherwise, he said, the

number of doctors opting out of medicare would

continue to grow.

“It medicare is to survive, a solution or mechanism musi be found to solve the conflict.” Hall told repor- ters. “Otherwise medicare as we have known it in Canada can fail in time ”

He said doctors should be adequately compensated for their services bul rejected the concept of extra-billing. He said if extra-billing was allowed by doctors it would desiroy the national health program.

“When negotiations fail, and an impasse occurs, the issues in dispute must be sent 10 binding arbitration.” Hall said.

He proposed a _ three- member arbitrafign board — an independent chairman’ named by the chief justice of the province. a_ represen- tative of the medical profession and a government appointee.

Hall said that while the provinces should have the right to abolish extra-billing, any such legislation should commit the province to the concept of binding ar- bitration.

“The two elements must be twinned,” he told reporters.

, "Extra-billing cannot be dutlawed without binding arbitration which binds the

province as firmly as the profession.”

Hall said many doctors tee) their positions as leading professionals in Canada have been eroded and that studies have shown that their rate of compensation has not risen at the same rate as have other professions.

Based on the latest Staustics Canada figures, Canadian physicians earn an average $54,610 a = year, compared to the average $43,035 salary of lawyers, dentists and accountants.

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BRASILIA, Brazil )- Brazil's Indians, pehraged over alleged invasions of reservation lands by white settlers. have set out on a bloody warpath and massacred farmers and peasants in the lawless steamy Amazon jungle, reports say.

Primitive Indians of the Caiapos tribe living on the Garouri reservation in the Amazon state of Para, swept down on the Esperanca farm and killed 12 farmers and settlers, the local press reported Tuesday.

It was not immediately clear when the attack took place, but reports said Funai — the Brazilian government agency which looks after the country’s 200,000 remaining Indians — had. sent a detective, a platoon of military police, .and = an anthropologist to the remote area ,

Three weeks ago Indians from the Txukarrame tnbe in the same region ambushed and then clubbed to death 11 peasant workers who the Indians claimed had invaded their reservation by cleanng a patch of forest

After last month's clash the Brazilian Interior imimister met with Indian thiefs and arranged a truce. gocluding the re-routing of a oad and the establishment of a buffer zone or “no man's and” between the

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