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Russia, the ultimate in state control, has the ultimate in state health insurance. Medical service is free to all. Doctors and dentists are assigned and paid by the state. Benefits, however, are limited by facilities available. Relative example: Russia has one dentist for 14,000 people; Britain has one dentist for 3,271 people, the U.S. one for 1,885 people...
Australia's Federal Parliament last year enacted a compulsory program of free drugs, in which the government would pay pharmacists for all prescriptions. But doctors have refused to cooperate, i.e., write prescriptions on government forms; they say free medicine has led to "tonic swilling" in nearby New Zealand. Parliament is also weighing compulsory health insurance that would pay half of every citizen's doctor bills from the public treasury. Doctors don't like this scheme either; they argue it will bring "a third party into the traditional intimate and confidential relationship between doctor and patient...
...Zealand has had compulsory insurance since 1938. Costs come from a general social security levy of 7.5% on all incomes. Nearly 2,000,000 New Zealanders are entitled to free medical care except for specialist services. Most telling criticism has been that doctors are doing so well financially that they neglect research and spurn lower-paying hospital posts...
...finale to Brown's pledge week, fraternity men had made the rounds of chapter houses to "congratulate" each other. As had happened before, the congratulations led to free-for-alls. At Beta Theta Pi, the brothers stood off a small invasion for a while, finally had to call for police help. Elsewhere, windows were smashed, streetlights broken, a U.S. mailbox ripped from its post...
Unlike retiring President Davis, who was happier editing Swift than running a college, Benjamin Wright is no stranger to administration. He was one of the authors of the 1945 Harvard report, General Education in a. Free Society (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945). As chairman of Harvard's Committee on General Education, he has spent the last three years in charge of an experimental program to divide the freshman curriculum into three balanced spheres: the humanities and the natural and social sciences...