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...enthusiasts, and a lot of people who never heard of socialized medicine, will read Paul de Kruif's Kaiser Wakes the Doctors (Harcourt, Brace; $2), out this week. Its 158 pages are an enthusiastic popularized account of the prepaid group medical care Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser and Dr. Sidney Garfield established for Kaiser workers. Throughout the book, De Kruif is an unabashed St. Paul, exhorting readers to faith, hope & charity for the new group medical revelation. Writes De Kruif: "Henry Kaiser stirred me to drop all else. . . to tell America this story...
...Venetian Blinds. Dr. Garfield had worked out his group medicine formula through medical care plans at the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Parker Dam and Imperial Dam projects before Kaiser hired him at Grand Coulee. He had found that complete medical care for workmen in their own hospitals could be financed by a 5?-a-day payroll tax plus a percentage of the industrial insurance premiums. The insurance companies were glad to chip in, as the good medical care cut compensation payments...
When medical needs in the San Francisco Bay and Vancouver shipbuilding areas got acute, Kaiser rehired Garfield. The doctor's first step was to establish the Permanente Foundation in the name of Mr. & Mrs. Kaiser. The Foundation borrowed $550,000 from banks to remodel and enlarge an old hospital near Richmond (Calif.), whose population had jumped from 23,000 to 127,000. Soon the money began pouring back into the banks at the rate of $50,000 a month-the Garfield plan was raking in 7? a day from 60,000 workers, plus a percentage from the insurance companies...
Then, -for pigeonholing his application, the Bar Association found itself under indictment by an angry grand jury of its own members. Led by the libertarian Arthur Garfield Hays, the indicters denounced the tabling of the application as "indistinguishable from the racial doctrines of Hitlerism." Several of the members, including Hays, resigned in protest...
...jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead of cash registers, gas lights over the bar, a rack of clay and corncob pipes for free smokes on the house. Under portraits of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley is a brass plate: THEY ASSASSINATED THESE GOOD MEN THE SKULKING DOGS...