Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poverty on Purpose. His aim was to change modern society into one in which "it would be easier for people to be good." His message was simple and uncompromising: capitalism, with its foundations in usury and its dehumanizing of man by machines, is just as bad for mankind as socialism...
There were already two other major health bills (by Ohio Republican Robert A. Taft and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill) before Congress. Both would pay the premiums of the poor so that they could join such voluntary private health-insurance programs as the Blue Cross which already cover 50 million Americans...
The Taft and Hill proposals utilize "voluntary" plans such as the Blue Cross. They would advance federal grants to the states to pay for those who cannot afford the premiums. Truman's Fair Deal medicine is much more far reaching. It would apply to everyone in the Social Security system...
Dr. Hayden agreed that the coverage of health plans was spotty and stated that voluntary insurance plans would cover most of Massachusetts. He declared that a compulsory plan would provide "unlimited services for people and limited compensation for doctors." He foresaw a time, under the proposed plan, when "psycho-neurotic...
Nearly all of Sweden's 3,359 doctors take part. A law already passed, but not effective until 1951, will make health insurance compulsory. Norway has had health insurance since 1909, compulsory for all earning less than 9,000 kroner ($1,800) yearly and voluntary for those earning more...