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...AMA has swept the early rounds. Early this year, when President Truman found his omnibus health bill blocked by the AMA lobby (financially the nation's strongest), he attempted to push through a bill giving scholarships to students of medicine and aid to their schools...
...AMA speaks of "full-coverage hospital, medical, and surgical insurance plans." No such plans exist. Most programs cover hospitalized illness, which is only half of national medical fees. Almost none of the AMA-approved plans provides for preventive medicine or covers chronic diseases, such as heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes, which claim 26 million victims...
...question remains: What should we do to improve medical care for the mass of the people? The AMA is committed to opposing any new federal health legislation whatsoever--including Republican bills for aid to voluntary associations. At the same time, the Association has reported that only 20 percent of the public can meet the cost even of minor illnesses without outside help. For the other four-fifths, the doctors assert, present organizations for voluntary insurance are sufficient...
...very groups that most need medical care cannot afford insurance any more than they can afford doctors. Southern and western states, with 43 percent of the population and the lowest standards of medical care, have only 17 percent of the membership in voluntary insurance groups. No AMA proposal provides for the two-thirds of the population who are not now covered by health insurance in any form. Why then is the AMA offering voluntary insurance as "the American answer to every question of medical service, care, and cost...
Raymond Rich, who resigned as AMA's public relations counsel in 1947 because the organization had become identified "with the economic interest of the doctors," delivered the indictment. "The association has yet to take unequivocal action . . . to seek the truth on the economic and social aspects of medicine, to put the public first, and to become adequate to its responsibilities...