Word: health
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appears that things are changing in the United States. The ever-rising price of health care here, and the problems of a system without cost controls and with uneven access to care, might at last be forcing a systematic reconsideration of the whole issue of health insurance. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) has made plans for a national health insurance scheme one of his major priorities. He is urging reforms in response to what he sees as the "current non-system of health care." He believes there is a growing crisis in the area of health, requiring...
This feeling is spreading, to some extent, among politicians, lobbying groups and the public. In North Dakota, for example, a question appeared on the ballot earlier this month, calling for total controls on health care costs. Another instance is the recent Senate vote favoring hospital cost containment -- which passed contrary to earlier expectations, and in the face of opposition from the American Medical Association and hospital lobbies...
Still, however, there remain major obstacles to the introduction of a national health insurance scheme. Vested interests spend much energy opposing such proposals -- but possibly more serious is the fact that large areas of public opinion tend to have vague notions about the grave disadvantages of what is generally referred to as "socialized medicine...
...commonest reaction among Americans to any mention of the British National Health Service (NHS) is that, together with the rest of the welfare state, it is responsible for Britain's post-war economic decline. Yet beyond this criticism, many Americans have little conception of what comprehensive national health services like those in Britain consist of, and cling to the conviction that socialized medicine is a bad thing. This tends to mean that they are willing to put up with a system that is costly, uneven, and in which the majority of the population are not even fully covered by health...
...position is not one of claiming that the British NHS is a perfect institution. It suffers indeed both from problems and limitations. Yet aside from these. I believe that comprehensive health care can work successfully and, moreover, serves as a cornerstone in the more caring society which the welfare state was intended to create. At the risk of lapsing into platitudes, one can say that health is something where there is little justification for the provision of different standards of service for those with different bank balances...