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...Womb of Death. Looking far ahead, the Air Force likes the notion of a guided missile, an "uninhabited" aircraft, probably rocket-driven, to arch from continent to continent under remote control. No effective guided missiles are yet in existence, but Army, Navy, Air Force and the Research and Development Board are working hard-and optimistically-to perfect them. Last week they made a joint request of Congress for a Long Range Proving Ground. During 1949, said Air Force General Muir S. Fairchild, the U.S. will have a 500-mile missile ready for testing, with no place to test...
Careful examination of the successes and failures of the British "womb to tomb" health insurance plan was recommended by Leavell for the development of a health insurance system...
...infant's blood develops, it sometimes causes the mother's blood to protect itself by forming "antibodies." The antibodies may become strong enough to invade the infant's bloodstream, killing it while still in the womb, or causing it to be born with abnormal blood, severe anemia and jaundice. Some such "erythroblastic" babies can be saved by blood transfusions soon after birth. Others are in such bad shape that nothing can be done...
...appeared last week in Sarum Messenger, a church publication. With increasing government interest in the individual's health "from sewerage to the new National Health Service," said the bishop, the government has become a sort of "foster mother" for the whole population. Though he likes some things about womb-to-tomb medical care at government expense, he said, it has lessened individual responsibility, and is killing "much that is best in English home life...
...From womb to tomb" was the British phrase for it. When Sir William Beveridge (in 1942) put out his famous plan,* its socialistic scheme for insurance and medical care was sponsored by a Conservative-led coalition government. Last week, under the more appropriate aegis of the Labor government, a National Health Service Act initiated by the Beveridge Report went into effect. For every man, woman & child in the United Kingdom, all medical care would be free, in a Socialist sense (paid out of taxes): doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, hospital beds, eyeglasses, artificial legs...