Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months, most of it at the front, and was made chief signal officer of the Ninth Army Corps. He received six decorations. He was appointed head of the Veterans' Bureau less than two months after President Harding was inaugurated. He resigned last Winter on account of ill health, after a trip to Europe. He is a 32nd degree Mason...
When employed, workmen contribute five pence a week to the National Health Fund, women four pence. Employers duplicate these amounts. The workmen must join an "approved society"-fraternal or commercial insurance organizations. The physicians who take insurance practice are assigned a panel of patients to whom they undertake to give all necessary medical service. They have been receiving 9s. 6d. a year for each patient, of which the approved societies pay seven shillings three pence, the Government making up the remainder. The Government is now in financial straits and proposes that the panel doctors...
...panel doctors flatly refuse any cut. They declared they will resign in a body and have appointed a Strike Committee of 200 practitioners. They are backed up in their fight against "medical slavery" by the British Medical Association and its organ the British Medical Journal. Health insurance was initiated in Germany some 25 years ago and has been widely introduced in Europe. But it has generally been opposed by the medical profession, and with particular violence...
...their article appeared: "The Princetonians found Mr. Wilson in excellent spirits and good health and willing to converse on many topics. He recited several limericks for the amusement of the three undergraduates during their visit." That and nothing more...
...threatened medical strike that would endanger the health of 15,000,000 Britons...