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...believe the King-Anderson bill is an entering wedge to socialized medicine," Prout said in defense of the bill. "But even if socialized medicine should result, such a step would be the will of the American people...
...Curtis Prout, associate director of the University Health Services, has urged that the medical profession and the Congress "work in an unemotional way to find a substitute for the defeated King-Anderson bill...
...Although the King-Anderson bill was not ideal," Prout said, "it was the best solution offered to this serious problem." He stated that the bill would not have existed at all if "the medical profession had made even rudimentary steps towards lowering the tremendous cost of medical care for older people...
...even local communities had attempted to find a workable plan, King-Anderson would not have been necessary," Prout claimed. "There must be a willingness to do something besides say 'no'. Opponents of the bill maintain that everyone should provide against his own illness and old age. Unfortunately, it is human nature for people to ignore that illness and old age are certainties...
Because of public pressure though, Harvard did purchase about 600 doses of a flu vaccine. This supply has already been up. But Dr. Prout promised that those who wanted the vaccination, free doses will be made available by the Health Services in a few weeks...