Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fullback Bill Paschal was out with a week-old broken...
Parliament had passed the National Health Service Bill, promising free, womb-to-tomb medical care for every Briton (TIME, April 1).* Now it was up to the doctors. Last week their answer came in: by a 23,110-to-18,972 vote, the British Medical Association said...
Health Minister Aneurin Bevan had worked hard to win the doctors over. On his side were the prestigious Royal College of Physicians, a majority of medical men in the military services, and most low-income medicos. To reassure opponents, the bill left open to negotiation the key questions of pay and terms of employment under the plan (the B.M.A. vote was on the question of whether to enter such negotiations). To sweeten a provision most obnoxious to doctors-a ban on the sale of practices-Bevan set up a $266,000,000 fund for payments to physicians at retirement...
Nonetheless, the B.M.A. decided that the plan smacked of "slavery." Reason: while the bill permitted private practice, and left physicians free to stay out of the plan if they chose, B.M.A. argued that most doctors would have no choice but to become virtual employes of the Government. Said Dr. Charles Hill, B.M.A.'s suave secretary: "It is not a question of money, for $266,000,000 was dangled before the profession. It is a question of the freedom of medicine...
From Jack & Heintz Precision Industries, Inc., peacetime version of Cleveland's famed war baby, President William S. Jack departed last week on a year's "leave of absence." But few Clevelanders expected that Bill Jack would ever come back to Jahco. Reason: Jahco's new owners were not sold on his unorthodox employe coddling...