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Among these 61 million are 34 million who have additional protection against part of the costs of surgery while in hospial. Two-thirds of these policies are written by insurance companies, most of the remainder by voluntary plans in Blue Cross's associate organization, Blue Shield, which has grown phenomenally in four years. Among the 34 million, about 13 million have additional coverage for some physicians' bills, usually only while in hospital. Some 3½ million of these, in turn, are insured against most types of medical expense (excluding dentistry, optometry and chronic illnesses like tuberculosis) from...
...Dean's Office fears that national political groups of which it disapproves will use the Harvard name as a shield for their activities. Thus The New Student, a magazine published by the Harvard Youth for Democracy, was denied Harvard recognition in January, 1948, on the grounds that 70 percent of its contributions and two-thirds of its circulation came from outside Harvard. This action was taken despite the fact that the magazine was edited entirely by Harvard students. It is unfair to imply that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities refused to recognize the magazine because of its political views...
...cold war. Political tensions since the war are, in the eyes of the Dean's Office, much greater than before the war. The Dean's Office feels that political groups of which it disapproves will use the Harvard name as a shield. Hence the Dean's Office wants to make it much tougher for groups to be chartered or to put out publications...
McCarthy said that Walter Reuther and Phillip Murray were using the communist issue as a shield in their attempt to shackle any unions who were opposing Reuther's bid to succeed Murray. He also accused the right wingers "of making the CIO a tail to the Democratic party...
...Paul R. Hawley, onetime Veterans Administration medical boss and now executive director for Blue Cross-Blue Shield, is dead set against compulsory health insurance. He is also a realist. In Washington last week, speaking to the District Medical Society, he sounded a warning: doctors getting set for an all-out fight against compulsory health insurance had better put their own house in order. Hawley had been talking to people all over the country, he said, and "I've come to the conclusion, with a great deal of regret, that the confidence of some of our people has been shaken...