Word: prepaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that, wholesomely enough, leaves U.S. doctors eager to make it even better. To improve the distribution of good treatment, the organization of medicine is in a state of headlong change, from stressing the general practitioner and his elastic fee to stressing group practice by specialists with most costs prepaid. Last week the American Medical Association, a group not prone to accept change gladly, acknowledged the trend by installing as president a group-practice specialist who says that "medicine cannot be blind to social change...
...medicine ring as loud as anyone's. Yet he is known in the organization for taking a step that a decade ago would have seemed unthinkable to A.M.A. After heading an investigating commission, Larson two years ago got A.M.A. to affirm the economic merits and medical quality of prepaid, closed-panel health-care plans -typically. New York's Health Insurance Plan (H.I.P...
...A.M.A. will undoubtedly continue to promote medicine of the highest standards, and it may also learn to accept changes in the doctor's economic status with more grace. At its May meeting, the dynamic California Medical Association urged A.M.A. to take the lead in efforts to make prepaid medical care available to all U.S. citizens. President Larson, in his inaugural address last week, said: "The professional spirit emphasizes conformity to the principles of scientific truth and ethical conduct. It also recognizes the rights and potentialities of the rebel or maverick who may have a new idea, a different method...
...Bill Buckley and his National Review Magazine. It is revealing to know that along with myself there is a brilliant editor and 31,913 subscribers who believe that unless the trend toward liberalism in government and politics is checked, our lives soon will become no more than a prepaid, state-supported labyrinth of sameness in which each of us is distinguished from the other only by number...
Rights & Royalties. If the CCF is reelected, and Tommy Douglas' medical plan goes through, Douglas Stewart may well spend a lifetime without a medical bill: prepaid compulsory insurance will pay for everything. The premier promises that under his plan, patients would be free to choose their own physicians, and doctors would retain the right to a private practice...