3 JUNE 1911, Page 3

The opposition of the doctors to the provisions of the

Insurance Bill is as strong as ever. On Thursday Mr. Lloyd George had a prolonged talk ' with the members of the British Medical Association, and promised to meet most of the objections raised. It remains to be seen, however, whether some of the satisfaction which the doctors no doubt felt in the presence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer does not evaporate by the time they report to the bodies which deputed them. On the main point Mr. Lloyd George stood firm. The doctors insist that their interests will be most seriously damaged if the income limit for the Insur- ance Bill is placed above 22 a week, at any rate for the medical benefit. The Chancellor, however, declared that it is absolutely impossible to make a concession here.