Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman's proposal for federal pre-paid health insurance would fulfill an important need in the nation's present health system, according to Dr. William L. Aycock, assistant professor of Preventive Medicine and Dr. Hugh Leavell, professor of Public Health...
...repealed, and a revised Wagner Act put in its place. He asked again for limited economic controls; proposals that have been futilely batted around in Congress for well over a year. And the President wants plenty of legislation in other domestic fields--Social Security, conservation and resource development, health, education, civil rights, and housing...
...Expenditures saved by such action should be devoted to Federal public health, aid to education, and social security measures...
...Patients would be sent to other federal hospitals or to community hospitals. The government, said the report, should spend more money in helping community hospitals, rather than building competing ones. For the long run, the task force suggested that a new cabinet department, to include a National Bureau of Health, might make some sense of the government's mixed-up, bogged-down health, education and welfare programs...
Died. Dr. Hugh Smith Cumming, 79, lanky, longtime Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service (1920-36); of a heart attack; in Washington. Dr. Cumming helped set up the national leprosarium in 1921 at Carville, La., also was responsible for establishing the Government's two rehabilitation farms for narcotic addicts...