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When the National Health Assembly (called by the Federal Security Administration) met in Washington last week, everybody expected a scrap. The American Medical Association, champion of medicine-as-it-is, was in one corner. In the other: spokesmen for farm groups, labor unions, consumers' associations and minority medical groups, all of which believe that U.S. medical care is too expensive and fails to reach the people who need it most...
...A.F.L., the C.I.O., the Physicians' Forum and other spokesmen for low-income groups protested loudly that this "free" system (in preponderant effect at present) results in overcharging and under-service. Farm spokesmen pointed out that many rural areas have few doctors or none. Only the richest parts of the country have enough medical services. The poorer parts, whose health affects the health and strength of the nation, are shunned by doctors as feeless medical wastelands. The only solution to the problem, cried labor, is national health insurance, financed and administered, when necessary, by the Government...
...Spokesmen from the Democratic, Republican, and "Third" Parties "looked at the record," "pointed with pride" at their own superiority, and came to the same conclusion, "vote for us," at last night's Law School Forum, held in Rindge Tech, on the subject "Which Party...
Minimizing the possibility of a similar outbreak tomorrow, the Save the Peace Committee holds that an entirely different atmosphere now prevails. No organization has planned a counter-demonstration at its projected "non-political" meeting, the groups spokesmen have declared...
...Europeans are thinking about questions of freedom & regimentation, war & peace, hope & despair. This material is part of the international survey of public opinion I discussed here six weeks ago. As many of you will recall, the findings of this survey were to be a basis for discussion by world spokesmen at an international forum on "The Future of Freedom" co-sponsored by TIME and New Orleans and scheduled for April 14-17 in the city of New Orleans...