Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fall, shortly after President Roosevelt called a National Health Conference in Washington, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association met in Chicago to consider the recommendations of the conference. Although A.M.A. spokesmen had been hostile to any suggestion of "Federal interference" in medicine, the House made an about-face in Chicago, indicated their approval of: Government care for indigent patients, expansion of public health services, construction of Federal hospitals where needed, expansion of voluntary health insurance schemes. Their only remaining objection was to compulsory health insurance which was discussed at the conference...
...members of the Dental Society of the State of New York, largest dental group in the country, met with 4,500 other dentists in Manhattan last week for the prime purpose of discussing Senator Wagner's Bill and how Federal grants to States for their various health plans would affect dental practice. To their dismay, their meeting started off with two surprises not on the agenda...
...guardedly for the Wagner Bill, was roundly applauded by his dental audience. Although he wanted administration of dental care kept in the hands of dentists, and although he did not advocate free treatment for the well-to-do, Dr. Merritt came out for support of "some form of health insurance-compulsory, voluntary, or both-by a payroll tax to which the employe, employer and the Government contribute." Taxation, he said, ". . . should not be burdensome if properly applied and efficiently administered...
...late 1920's California citizens began to clamor for large-scale, low-cost medical care. Last November, when liberal Democrat Culbert Levy Olson was elected Governor, he promised to sponsor a State system of compulsory health insurance. This threat of "government interference" spurred the California Medical Association, which for over ten years had been hatching health-insurance schemes, to announce a counterplan...
Administration Health Insurance. While C. P. S. in practice will cover only workers averaging less than $60 a week, Governor Olson's "administration" bill proposes to include higher income groups and unemployed. The bill promises State benefits to workers who are unemployed because of illness and makes allowances for dental care as well as complete medical, surgical and hospital service. Patients will have the right to choose their own physicians, and registered doctors will be paid standard rates...