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Word: prepayments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parran's appointment. They were educated, trained and licensed to earn their living from fees which their patients paid them. Now a large part of the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Surgeon General | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...making it stick. Whereas all other Presidents have been content to let Congressional clerks read out their objections to bad measures, nothing less than the rostrum of the House of Representatives would serve him as an eminence from which to thunder his disapproval of the Patman Bill to prepay the soldier Bonus with printing press money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ex-Precedent | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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