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...AMA in Opposition...
Though favored by the American Association of Medical Colleges, the bill is being strongly opposed by the American Medical Association. The AMA considers the emergency aid as the first step toward the nationalization of the medical profession; they believe that it is the realization of the threat made by the Truman administration, to pass the omnibus health plan in sections if it can't pass the whole thing all at once...
Members of both the American Medical and Dental Associations testified yesterday against the health bill. Dr. Louis H. Bauer, a member of the AMA's Board of Trustees assailed the payroll tax insurance plan as "an extreme example of compulsory paternalism, "wrong in principle and impossible of practical operation...
...even before AMA and ADA spokesmen detailed their opposition to the multi-billion dollar federal insurance proposal, Administration leaders had removed it from this session's "must" list. Senate majority leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois said Monday that Congress could not get around to this matter before a hoped-for adjournment on July...
...Alan M. Butler, professor of pediatrics and chief of Children's Medical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, will defend the Truman program, while Dr. John F. Conlon, director of medical information of the Massachusetts Medical Society, will support the AMA's new program for finance and distribution of medical care...