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Tonga's 150 islands (total area: 250 sq. miles; pop. 45,000) for almost 3½ centuries. Tongans have no housing problem, no unemployment; they get free medical and dental care. Education (including English, Tongan history, singing and native arts) is compulsory from...
...both Koerner's beginnings in Vienna and his present life in Brooklyn; it told nothing of the long trail that connected the two. He was born 34 years ago into an affectionate, close-knit Jewish family: "My father was a shipping agent for a while; later he sold dental supplies. We always had a nice apartment and good living. He taught me to like light music and my mother taught me to like symphonies. We all used to go walking together-my brother and my parents and I-in the Vienna woods, and sometimes...
...vastly improved, for many reasons. Payrolls shrunk by the Depression have swollen in boom times and given millions added buying power for medical care. The wonder drugs have worked miracles. World War II, though it killed and maimed hundreds of thousands, gave millions of men & women better medical and dental care than they had ever had before, and made them health-conscious. Group insurance has enabled many families to go to the doctor oftener-and earlier, when it does the most good...
From these facilities, many Americans already get free medical care. For the 1,500,000 men in the armed forces and their 1,800,000 dependents, who get virtually all medical and dental care at Government expense, there are 132 hospitals with 55,252 beds, served by 6,755 doctors and 2,083 dentists. Almost 20 million veterans get free medical service in emergencies, or for service-connected ailments, can also get free service for other ailments if they swear that they cannot pay for it. For them there are 125 hospitals, 4,211 doctors and 884 dentists. Free care...
...Dental and obstetrical care and payment for drugs are among the services not listed by the experiment...