Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME tried some fancy rewriting of history when it reported [Feb. 16] that the N.A.A.C.P., the United Automobile Workers, and the Americans for Democratic Action "killed" Part III "out of the 1957 [civil rights] bill by mutual agreement." I would like to set the record straight on behalf of all three organizations...
...should stop thinking of mutual-assistance funds as stopgap measures, should put the mutual-security program on a permanent basis-it "is and will continue to be an essential tool" of foreign policy. "In our fascination with our own mistakes, and the constant use of foreign aid as a whipping boy, we may be gradually choking this vital feature of our national-security policy to death...
Spurring Skutt and Mutual on is the fear among private insurancemen that unless a free-enterprise way is found to insure the U.S. public against loss of income due to disease or accident, socialized medicine will take over. Flying more than 100,000 miles a year over Mutual's far-flung empire, and working six and sometimes seven days a week even when "vacationing" (as he was last week in Florida), Skutt has dedicated himself to proving that socialized medicine is not needed. The campaign is paying off. A few years ago the Federal Trade Commission took out after...
Service at Cost. In a further move to forestall socialized medicine, Skutt volunteered Mutual's vast and efficient claims-handling service "at cost" to the Defense Department to handle claims for servicemen's dependents in 17 states. Last year Mutual processed more than 125,000 such claims for an average cost of $1.20 apiece. Says Skutt: "Many in business criticize the Government because it gets into the realm of private enterprise. Then when the Government asks business to take over, they are busy looking out the window...
...Mutual's Skutt, heading off compulsory Government health insurance is not the real satisfaction of his job. That satisfaction he finds in working out new ways of attaining old objectives. "In the old days," he says, "when a person got sick, he looked to his neighbors for help. Now, in our more complicated society, that is usually not possible. We like to feel that we are the good neighbor...