Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient was the whole U.S., and diagnosing its state of health was something like standing in shallow water and trying to feel a whale's pulse. There was room for all, and last week doctors were crowding alongside by the scores, prodding with their stethoscopes, waving hastily scribbled prescription blanks, and bitterly berating each other as quacks, bunion choppers, herb cooks and barbers...
Last fall Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing dropped a bombshell: a program of compulsory health insurance which he recommended to President Truman. Ever since, the big brass of the American Medical Association have been spluttering with indignation. Determined to fight compulsory health insurance tooth & nail, the A.M.A. has also turned its back on such individually financed measures as the voluntary health insurance plan offered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions (TIME, Dec. 13). In its fighting mood, the A.M.A. has even levied a $25 assessment on each of its 140,000 members...
...Clem also knew that an education campaign would not be enough. His experience in California had taught him that voluntary health insurance is the doctors' best weapon against compulsory, Government-regulated plans. Said he: "We want everybody in the health insurance field selling insurance during the next two years as he never sold it before ... If we can get ten million more people insured in the next year and ten million more the next year, the threat of socialized medicine in this country will be over...
...opponents of socialized medicine, sent a petition to A.M.A. Spokesman Dr. Morris Fishbein, criticizing the association's "indefinite and ... inadequate program." Under the combined assault, the A.M.A. brass gave way. This week they announced a twelve-point plan. Main points: 1) creation of a federal Department of Health, headed by a doctor who will be a Cabinet member, 2) increased medical research through a national science foundation, 3) more voluntary health insurance, 4) federal aid for medical education and hospitals...
Neither unions nor management are happy under the present system of handling "essential" industries, where the constant threat of injunctions tends to nullify collective bargaining. Yet when strict adherence to the principles of pure collective bargaining imperils the national health or safety, open fights cannot be allowed...