Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compulsory health insurance which he recommended to President Truman. Ever since, the big brass of the American Medical Association have been spluttering with indignation. Determined to fight compulsory health insurance tooth & nail, the A.M.A. has also turned its back on such individually financed measures as the voluntary health insurance plan offered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions (TIME, Dec. 13). In its fighting mood, the A.M.A. has even levied a $25 assessment on each of its 140,000 members. The $3,500,000 is to be used in an "education" campaign to tell the U.S. about the advantages...
...into action. Hired to run the new education campaign was Clem Whitaker, a stem-winding San Francisco public relations man. An old hand at fighting government-in-medicine (with his pert partner-wife, Leone Baxter, he led the successful California fight against Governor Earl Warren's compulsory insurance plan in 1945), Clem said what the medical brass wanted to hear: "The doctors of this country are in the front lines today [of] a basic struggle between ... socialism and private initiative . . . Oscar Ewing, that great patent-medicine man . . . apparently is grimly determined to bring socialized medicine from sick Europe...
...meeting was in session, 136 leading U.S. doctors, all opponents of socialized medicine, sent a petition to A.M.A. Spokesman Dr. Morris Fishbein, criticizing the association's "indefinite and ... inadequate program." Under the combined assault, the A.M.A. brass gave way. This week they announced a twelve-point plan. Main points: 1) creation of a federal Department of Health, headed by a doctor who will be a Cabinet member, 2) increased medical research through a national science foundation, 3) more voluntary health insurance, 4) federal aid for medical education and hospitals...
...could have found cogent reasons just by glancing at his department's statistics. There was more grain than the U.S. could eat, store or ship abroad. The Government had already taken a fourth of the bumper wheat crop off the market, by loans and purchases under its support plan. It expected to have to do the same with as much as 600 million bushels of corn-more than is normally sold commercially in a year. But with most storage space filled, a huge amount of "free grain" not encompassed by the support program had been thrown on the market...
...plan was the work of aggressive, able Dore Schary, 43, MGM's new vice president in charge of production. Of the projected 67 films, a dozen are already in the can and six are now shooting. The program will "challenge the gloomy prophets of defeat," said Schary, who is being privately hailed by his studio head, Louis B. Mayer, as the long-sought successor to the late Irving Thalberg. There are still "tough problems to be solved," Schary told the visiting salesmen, as they gathered for luncheon under thousands of square feet of improbably blue sky (left over from...