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...American Medical Association still believes President Eisenhower's health insurance program will not achieve the desired results," the AMA announced last week. But for all the unusual mildness of statement, it would be wrong to assume that the AMA has decided to give expanded health insurance a trial run. The same $2,000,000 lobby which fought Blue Cross health insurance, Social Security, and workmen's compensation in the 1930's stands prepared to combat suggested programs which would bring essential protection of medical health insurance to more people...
...AMA has been traditionally outspoken, and its pronouncements have often been designed to uphold the standards of American medicine. Emphasizing the need to set rigid standards for physician's training, the AMA has also established codes of ethics and high requirements throughout medical practice, using its power to expel and discredit members who violate the rules of their state medical associations. In maintaining medical facilities at the highest levels, the AMA has done valuable work--which could have been done only by learned men, experienced in their profession...
...only a friend's intervention prevented gunfire. Affable, conservative Arana stood well with the army, and was in the lead for the presidency, when in July 1949 he was decoyed into making an inspection trip that took his Mercury station wagon over a little arched bridge near Lake Ama-titlán. There he and his aide were ambushed and Tommy-gunned to death by four young officers. All were intimates of handsome Jacobo Arbenz. Arana's army friends rose in revolt, but Defense Minister Arbenz, after a scary 36 hours, crushed the rising at a cost...
Because of these deficiencies in the American health program, Britain's compulsory health insurance plan has received considerable study. The famous "socialized medicine," as the AMA refers to it, is financed by percentage paycheck deductions. For their money Britains get attention from doctors of their choice, hospitalization and surgery, dental work, drugs, spectacles, and false teeth. The Minister of Health noted: "Rugged Britain has become a nation of pill-swallowers...
...Needs also recommended federal assistance to states ("grants-in-aid") for medical school construction, research, and scholarships. The Commission's plan, while avoiding much of Britain's detailed paper work, would provide better medical care for the country, vesting authority in the hands of elected officials instead of the AMA...