Newsclip: Roslyn [Rudnicky] reports on the proposed experimental Chiropractic Services Programme to be administered by the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Commission.

Informal portraits of Donald D. Tansley, in his office at 122 Health and Welfare Building, Regina. Tansley is the chairman of the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Commission.

This fonds consists of records created, accumulated, and used from 1955 to 1982 by James Austin Brown of Regina, Saskatchewan in his professional career as general manager of Group Medical Services; secretary of the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Commission; and member of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. The records, which relate mainly to the Medicare Crisis and medical care generally, include correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, briefs and submissions, policy manuals, annual reports, promotional literature, scrapbooks, and photographs.

This fonds also includes various records accumulated by James Austin Brown (photographs, postcards, reports, newspaper clippings, poems, publications, an architectural drawing and maps) dating from 1907 to 1982.

No series assignment has been applied to the records in this fonds.

Interior views of the Medical Care Insurance Commission (Medicare) and Saskatchewan Hospital Services Plan offices and staff at Regina. 01: An employee opens envelopes containing insurance claims. 02: An employee sorts incoming claims. 03: An employee operates a Tickometer machine. 04: Employees processing claims. 05 to 06: Key-punch machine operators. 07: An employee types up cheques. 08 to 10: Punch card sorting machines in the computer centre. 11: A printer in the computer centre. 12: File cabinets for processed and paid claims files. 13 to 14: General views of employees at work.

Interior views of the Medical Care Insurance Commission (Medicare) offices and staff at Regina. 01: Initial sorting of incoming claims. 02: A claims department representative discusses a claim with one of the consulting physicians. 03: An International Business Machines (I.B.M.) printer in operation in the computer centre. Claims are registered onto punch cards and are handled through data processing equipment. 04: An automated card sorter in the computer centre sorts cards representing individual claims. The computer centre is located in the Health and Welfare Building at Regina. 05: A new batch of claims arrives at the key punch room. From this desk they go to the key punch operators to record onto punch cards. Two key punch machines can be seen at right. 06: Statistics compiled by the computers are checked by an employee.

Views of the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Plan (01 to 02) and Saskatchewan Department of Mineral Resources (03) exhibits on display at the 1964 Regina Exhibition.

Views of the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Plan (01) and Saskatchewan Department of Mineral Resources (02) exhibits on display at the 1964 Regina Exhibition.

01: Dr. James G. Clarkson, executive director of the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Commission, and stenographer Esther Tiefenbach hold the first payment-to-doctor cheque issued by the Commission. 02 to 04: Hon. J.H. Brockelbank, Deputy Premier of Saskatchewan, makes an address regarding Medical Care Insurance (Medicare) at a press conference held in Room 267 of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building. 05 to 06: John F. Kinzel, secretary of the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Commission and Hon. J.H. Brockelbank answering questions at the press conference. 07: A young patient with acute appendicitis is transferred into an Olson's Ambulance upon arrival by a Saskatchewan Air Ambulance aircraft at Regina Airport. 08: A Saskatchewan Air Ambulance arrives at its hangar at Regina Airport with a patient who will be transferred to an Olson's Ambulance. 09: Hon. W.S. Lloyd, Premier of Saskatchewan, speaks at a press conference. 10: Sign posted on entry door to a doctors' office, notifying the public that the doctors "do not intend to carry out practice under The Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Act". 11 to 27: Views of the "Keep Our Doctors" protest rally held on the grounds in front of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building at Regina on July 11, 1962.

A meeting of member of the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Commission. 03: Sitting (L to R): Dr. Samuel Wolfe; Donald D. Tansley; Stuart Robertson; Dr. F. Burns Roth. Standing (L to R): A.V. Kipling; George J.D. Taylor; Dr. Orville K. Hjertaas.

Portraits of British doctors recruited by the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Commission. 01: Unidentified. 02: Dr. Meerephael.