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...population can no longer afford to pay any doctor bills whatsoever. To get around that economic difficulty doctors have invented several hundred prepay and partial-pay schemes, including $10-a-year hospitalization insurance (see p. 50). Dr. Parran does not believe such systems will solve the problem of patientless doctors and doctorless patients. He wants socialized medicine, with free drugs and hospital service to every inhabitant of the U. S. who cannot afford them. As filler for doctors' pocketbooks he would permit the present system of the private practice of medicine to continue, would have private practitioners dispense...
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