Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cart First. Harry Truman had asked for the moon, and left Congress in the position of having to haggle over the sixpence. He had kept his campaign promise by submitting the bill. But, as he well knew, his compulsory insurance proposal -the only real issue in the bill-had little chance of passing in this session of Congress. Most critics thought the President's program was also unrealistic, because it put the cart before the horse. The nation's corps of 190,000 doctors, and the hospitals available to them, would have to be vastly expanded before they...
There were already two other major health bills (by Ohio Republican Robert A. Taft and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill) before Congress. Both would pay the premiums of the poor so that they could join such voluntary private health-insurance programs as the Blue Cross which already cover 50 million Americans. Taft's bill also provides federal subsidies for training doctors and building hospitals. Truman's answer to these bills: "Medical care is needed as a right, not as a medical dole." One sign of the trouble the President's bill faces: seven of the 13 members...
...Medical Mills." Even before the President's bill was sent to the Hill, three Catholic welfare groups objected to the program as "practically a Government monopoly." The powerful American Medical Association, which was trying to raise $3,500,000 from its members to fight the President's program, raised an excited and angry voice. Said the A.M.A.: "Government-herding of patients and doctors in assembly-line medical mills would lower the standards of healthy America to those of sick, regimented Europe...
Ohio's handsome, white-haired John Bricker, who is beloved by the real-estate lobby, did not join the Senate's private slumming expedition (see above). He had other fish to fry. As the Senate moved into its fifth day of debate on the bipartisan housing bill, Bricker cooked up a whopper...
...face aglow, he rose to offer a plausible-sounding amendment to the housing bill which would provide federal funds to help erect 810,000 low-rent housing units within the next six years. Bricker wanted a provision forbidding discrimination or segregation of races in any public housing project. Cried Bricker: "There has been a great deal of shadowboxing in the Congress in the attempt to place responsibility for the failure of the civil rights program. This is the one chance we will likely have to vote on this question during the present session...