Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...division of departmental loyalties and teaching time may not go smoothly in the near future. But if the Faculty can make the scheme come off, the level of a Harvard education will take a long leap upwards...
Long Way from Locke. A few weeks before Churchill's blast, Britain's new socialized medicine scheme had survived its first major test in the House of Commons. Its champion, Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, held arrogant and undisputed possession of the field when Churchill walked out of the House (TIME, Feb. 28). This did not prove that Britain's socialized medicine plan was good medicine or good social organization. But the debate's results did prove that socialized medicine was what the British voters wanted...
Ride on the Escalator. Actually, few British doctors now make less money than before the scheme went into effect; many make more. Almost all doctors are overworked, because of the enormous increase in patients and because of the new chit-writing and form-filling they must attend to. Contrary to dire predictions before the plan went into effect, doctors are free at least of one worry: there have been relatively few hypochondriacs. "It's been just like it was when they first put escalators in the underground stations," explains...
...cooperate, i.e., write prescriptions on government forms; they say free medicine has led to "tonic swilling" in nearby New Zealand. Parliament is also weighing compulsory health insurance that would pay half of every citizen's doctor bills from the public treasury. Doctors don't like this scheme either; they argue it will bring "a third party into the traditional intimate and confidential relationship between doctor and patient...
Barty Fingal, a stringy bit of town scum, and his pal Pelancey, a handsome but dim-witted giant, find a compromising letter in a jacket sent to Pelancey's dry-cleaning shop. They decide to blackmail the man who wrote it, and their scheme is so successful that the poor fellow commits suicide...