Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President submitted proposals for a National health insurance bill. In addition to the administration measure, there are two other health plan bills, one backed by Senator Robert A. Taft; the other, by Senator Lister Hill. All three bills and almost everyone concerned with the debate over the nation's health are in basic agreement on one thing: something has to be done...
...Taft and Hill proposals utilize "voluntary" plans such as the Blue Cross. They would advance federal grants to the states to pay for those who cannot afford the premiums. Truman's Fair Deal medicine is much more far reaching. It would apply to everyone in the Social Security system, at least 85,000,000 persons. An additional 3% payroll tax would pay for it, 1 1-2% from the employee, 1 1-2% from the employer...
...Taft and Hill bills provide for the indigent in the manner of a relief agency. In contrast, the Truman proposal covers more than half of the nation. It absorbs most of the shock for that enormous group who can afford proper care for serious illnesses only at the expense of their normal standard of living. Harry Truman summed it up as well as anybody could: "Medical care is needed as a right and not as a medical dole...
Wilson is a transfer student from Southern California, where he played freshman football. John Fiorentino, Walt Coulson, and Red Hill, all ends last year, are graduating. Wilson, a fullback at USC, is now an end. If one diving catch of a Lowenstein pass indicates anything, the fast 200-pound pre-med student may be a good...
...Board of Education. Later in the day he made another quiet pilgrimage to Capitol Hill. He walked into the office of Speaker Sam Rayburn at 5:25. It was the time, almost to the minute, that he had crossed its threshold four years before and had been told to call the White House. This time he was not interrupted, and spent 55 minutes with the "Board of Education" crowd, a group of congressmen and employees who drop in on the Speaker for a quiet drink every day after Congress recesses...