Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With disarming casualness, President Truman sent up to Capitol Hill one day last week what was potentially one of the hottest political and economic issues Congress has ever had to handle. The President asked Congress to enact a compulsory health-insurance program for most U.S. citizens. Said the President in a special message: "To see that our people actually enjoy the good health that medical science knows how to provide is one of the great challenges to our democracy...
There were already two other major health bills (by Ohio Republican Robert A. Taft and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill) before Congress. Both would pay the premiums of the poor so that they could join such voluntary private health-insurance programs as the Blue Cross which already cover 50 million Americans. Taft's bill also provides federal subsidies for training doctors and building hospitals. Truman's answer to these bills: "Medical care is needed as a right, not as a medical dole." One sign of the trouble the President's bill faces: seven of the 13 members...
...Medical Mills." Even before the President's bill was sent to the Hill, three Catholic welfare groups objected to the program as "practically a Government monopoly." The powerful American Medical Association, which was trying to raise $3,500,000 from its members to fight the President's program, raised an excited and angry voice. Said the A.M.A.: "Government-herding of patients and doctors in assembly-line medical mills would lower the standards of healthy America to those of sick, regimented Europe...
Donohone, how; Wagner, 2. Pasierb, 3; MeCaig, 4; Duffy, 5; Solomon. 6; Hill. 7; Chapdelaine, stroke; Hanover, coxawain...
...entries, all seniors, will huddle, shivering, along the starting line at the foot of Tower Court hill. They will be attired in caps and gowns, the latter rolled up to permit sprinting. Each girl will have a hoop...