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Every program that has been designed to provide health insurance for patients who cannot afford to pay for it, or who are now excluded as "poor risks" has won the Association's opposition as "socialistic" or "unworkable." In 1932 Dr. Morris Fishbein, then editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, stated that voluntary health insurance was "socialism and communism, inciting to revolution." Characteristically, today the AMA supports the voluntary health insurance pools it called "medical soviets" twenty years ago, and resists significant improvements on them. It has entered an active campaign to prevent Federal assistance in medical school...
Among all the experts on obesity, only one looked overweight: roly-poly Dr. Morris Fishbein, onetime editor of the A.M.A. Journal. That morning, lamented Fishbein, he had had two breakfasts (the second for sociability); he was going to an alumni lunch, had a date for afternoon cocktails, a speaking date for dinner, and would probably have a snack before retiring. Attacking conviviality as a major cause of overeating, Dr. Fishbein estimated that three-fourths of his eating that day would be convivial...
...FISHBEIN, M.D. Providence...
...negative program of the post-Fishbein Association--which has killed off nearly every recent piece of health legislation--is part of the whole tradition of organized medicine. Before the ad-men finish rewriting that history, here are some facts...
...Report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care backed voluntary medical insurance as the best answer to the health problems of the average citizen and of "the unfortunate physician facing starvation" (about one out of three, at that time). Fishbein's reply to the suggestion: "Socialism and communism, inciting to revolution...