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...nucleus of the present bill is Title 1 of the earlier omnibus health plan but the substance is a full-scale compromise with the AMA's position. The AMA disliked the scholarship program, the administration changed the bill to give scholarships only after the supply of self-sufficient medical school applicants is exhausted; the AMA feared that the stipend paid to medical schools for students over and above their average enrollment would encourage "wildeat" schools, the administration cut that stipend to one-third of its original size. But the medical group, fearing the bull too much to eat the beef...
...emergency bill covering Title I of H.R. 4312, the administration's omnibus health bill that was brought up before Congress last Spring. If it passes, a five-year program of aid for education in medicine, dentistry, nursing and related fields will be set up under the Surgeon General and will be administered by the National Council on Education for Health Professions. 'The bill provides for outright financial grants for instruction and expansion plus a federal medical scholarship program. The latter will be taken up in the second article in this series...
...Medical Colleges, the bill is being strongly opposed by the American Medical Association. The AMA considers the emergency aid as the first step toward the nationalization of the medical profession; they believe that it is the realization of the threat made by the Truman administration, to pass the omnibus health plan in sections if it can't pass the whole thing all at once...
...think that the present fear of a doctor shortage is unwarranted but they are afraid that some schools might lower their standards in order to get more federal aid. "If the quality of medical attention is to be preserved," states an AMA spokesman in the original hearings on the omnibus health bill before the House sub-committee," the schools must be provided with sufficient funds to correct deficiencies in their present programs before they undertake to train an increased number of students...
...understanding, local though it was, came just in time. Not long afterward, Franck was run down by an omnibus; in six months he was dead...