Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revenue goes to its maharaja (compared with approximately one pound in 1,600 of British revenue to King George VI). And the taxpayer gets almost nothing for his money. In one state which charges taxes of $5.50 per head, 10? per head is spent on education, 8? on public health. Much of the rest goes to keep the maharaja well supplied with pearls, virgins, elephants and other luxuries. If taxation fails, there are different ways of raising money-one prince is said to have sold his 300 stepmothers for 30 rupees apiece...
Fortnight ago every one of the members of the New York County Medical Society* received a ballot stating : "If under Proposition Four of [Senator Wagner's] . . . National Health Program, money is made available to New York State to provide care for the low-income earning groups, do you favor the delivery of this medical care by means of compulsory health insurance...
Last week when the votes were tallied, society officers found that nearly two-thirds of the 4,800 members ignored the ballot, failed to vote. Final figures: 1,286 against compulsory health insurance, 432 in favor...
...medical care are Drs. Samuel Joseph Kopetzky and Haven Emerson. Dr. Kopetzky, a youthful-looking, rosy-cheeked-otolaryngologist and veteran of the Spanish-American War, is editor of the official New York Medical Week. He is also an accomplished speechmaker. For months he has been denouncing the National Health Program as "a foreign importation." If doctors were salaried, he argued, they would not render good medical care, for the desire for money is the greatest incentive in medical practice. From the oath of Hippocrates: "In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients...
Long, narrow Dr. Emerson, a grandnephew of Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, is bland and diplomatic. His chief arguments against compulsory health insurance are: 1) the U. S. needs no planned medical care, for its citizens are in excellent health [despite Government statistics to the contrary]: 2) political appointees would run insurance systems. Doctors, says Dr. Emerson, must stay out of politics...