Word: careful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Chamber of Deputies last week moved to appropriate funds to provide meagre board and care for the refugees, the chances are that France in the end will not be out one sou. The daily $185,000 bill can be met for a long time by expropriating the treasures the Loyalists deposited and shipped to France months ago. General Franco would like the money himself. He has hinted that he thought the refugees' care was not his baby. Rebel Spain has, in fact, made the refugee problem a bargaining point with the French Government. Furthermore...
State medical societies paid particular attention to Section Four of the bill, which proposes that States use Federal grants "to provide medical care for low income groups." Since this proposal leaves the set-up of such medical care to individual States, and since State legislators will heed the recommendations of State medical societies, doctors last week began making up their minds on the vital question of compulsory health insurance...
...Person Really Profit By Medical Care If It Is Forced...
Compulsory health insurance, says this propaganda, encourages malingering, actually costs more than private medical care, is "detrimental to the nation's health." Under the English health insurance system, says one booklet, "the . . . patient will not hesitate to come along into the waiting-room collarless and even coatless, nor does it add to the comfort of other patients when one is compelled to put up a large notice [asking] . . . patients . . . not to spit on the floor...
...brief, basic arguments for health insurance. Compulsory health insurance, they said, would lower the "financial burden of illness by spreading the cost over . . . large groups of people. It would enable the sick to seek medical treatment early in disease. ... It would enable the physician to give more adequate care to [poor] patients because such care would not entail an added financial burden to the patient. ... It would give greater financial stability to the physician as it would enable him to treat privately a large group of people whom he cannot treat today because of their inability...