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...today are about 110 voluntary health-insurance groups, which render services to some 2,150,000 members at a low annual rate. Most of those providing complete medical care are privately owned clinics established by doctors, such as the highly successful Ross-Loos Clinic in Los Angeles. Rapidly growing, however, are cooperative clinics, established and owned by laymen who pay, in addition to initial stock investments, a small annual sum for medical care. Most conspicuous of the cooperatives is the Group Health Association in Washington, D. C., at whose behest the Government is now prosecuting an antitrust action against...
These doctors who say that doctors would not render good medical care if they were salaried (TIME, March 27) may speak for themselves, but there is one big professional group that would be shocked if its "patients" ever offered to pay individually for services. I refer to college professors (of which I am one) and other teachers...
...some students, unable to pay the bills, were too embarrassed to attend class and face the teacher, much as they needed his services? I suspect that even doctors are not so money-mad as some of their spokesmen appear to believe, and that most of them would render honest service in spite of a dependable stable income. Some of the most important contributions to medical science have been and are being made by salaried men and women...
Justices Black and Stone, in separate opinions, found nothing in the U. S. Constitution to render Federal salaries immune. In a concurring opinion, Justice Frankfurter observed: "Whether Congress may, by express legislation, relieve its functionaries from their civic obligations to pay the benefits of the State governments under which they live, is matter for another...
...looking, rosy-cheeked-otolaryngologist and veteran of the Spanish-American War, is editor of the official New York Medical Week. He is also an accomplished speechmaker. For months he has been denouncing the National Health Program as "a foreign importation." If doctors were salaried, he argued, they would not render good medical care, for the desire for money is the greatest incentive in medical practice. From the oath of Hippocrates: "In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients...