Word: mannix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shot in the arm to give it a nationwide growth spurt. And unless the shot is administered soon, Government control of all U.S. hospitals is only a matter of time. These were the blunt alternatives presented to the American Hospital Association in Manhattan last week by John R. Mannix, executive vice president of the Blue Cross of Northeast Ohio...
...Mannix diagnosed it, Blue Cross is suffering from hardening of the arteries, has lost the pioneering spirit that sparked its phenomenal growth in the 1930s. It now has 80-odd plans operating across the U.S., works through an organizational maze of associations, commissions and committees. Some Blue Cross groups have restricted benefits while raising their rates; individually they are not up to dealing with employers and labor unions, which want nationwide coverage...
...Mannix prescription: have the A.H.A.-in cooperation with the American Medical and Dental Associations if they agree-get a federal charter for an American Blue Cross as a voluntary, nationwide organization. Its trustees should include representatives of agriculture, labor and management, preferably appointed by the President of the U.S. Its major aims, Mannix suggested, should...
...noted Mannix, is the only major nation with no Government-controlled health plan. And it will have such a plan tomorrow, he prophesied gloomily, unless action is taken today to strengthen the voluntary medical system of which voluntary hospitals are a key component...
...will find it significant," said Menzies, that Evatt "should now propound a defense policy which is unreal and defeatist and which will be received with enthusiasm only by the Communists and those who support them." In Melbourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop Daniel Mannix, a Catholic Action leader, added: "If the foreign policy of certain leaders is any indication, the Communist rot has begun to set in here...