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This week Bernard Baruch gave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the U.S. the benefit of an old man's experience and advice. As usual, it was so commonsensible it sounded daring. The nub of it (with familiar Baruch bells on): the time has come to quit horsing around and get to work...
...Roosevelt's wartime manpower investigator, he was "shocked to learn that at least 4,000,000 men had been rejected as 4Fs." He was also shocked by a prewar American Medical Association finding that two-thirds of U.S. families could not afford the cost of serious illness. Said Baruch...
...Specific Baruch demands: "More and better doctors-in more places"; more general practitioners; more hospitals; more group practice; more preventive medicine; "a new Cabinet post for health, education [and] social security"; a "watchdog committee" to help guard veterans' medicine against politicians...
...Said Baruch, staring defiantly at his silent audience: "I do not fear Government taking its legitimate part in medicine, any more than I fear it in education or housing. ... I urge the doctors to get in and pitch-not stand by on the sidelines...
Like a transcontinental echo of Bernard Baruch's challenge, San Francisco rumbled last week with a battle over compulsory health insurance. Under fire was a medical system covering San Francisco's 12,000 municipal employees. The only governmental compulsory health insurance system in the U.S., it provides medical care in return for a small monthly fee deducted from members...