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Political Medicine Not The Answer
(This article reprinted from the
Medical Journal, official Publica
thon of the American Medical
Association.)
Q—Just what is political medi
cine?
Political medicine is the type of
medicine this country could expect
if a measure now before Congress
utere made law. This measure is
known as the Porand bill. If en
u would mean medicine
cor.'ro^ed a:*d admiMgteacd by
the fer’oral government, Tt would
mean red tane, bureaucratic cen
tre ' h e'vats, ard Inferior medi
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a system of socialized medi
cine for a large segment of the
population. Americans rejected
socialized medicine overwhelming
ly in 1950. But heme it is again—
this time under a different label.
9—What would the Forand bill
do?
. it would permit the federal
gevammeat to buy, with an un
prfcdiotabiy huge quantity of your
tax dollars, a limited amount of
hospital, surgical, and nursing
hone treatment for some 16
Million people eligible for social
weourlty netamememt and survivor
ship payments,
Q—Who would run the program
ami rule on what sort of treatment
Must be provided?
me reaoraQ government, through
Curnment employees.
%—What would all this cost?
About $2 billion a year—(for the
Mat and seoond years of operation.
As Wine went on, costs would sky
rocket—.as they did in Great
Britain.
Q—Who would pay the bill for
Forand legislation?
You would—and so would every
one else who pays social security
toes. These taxes atne already
noli edified to reach 9 per cent of
ttfc payroll in the years -head.
Tbe means you will eventual.y be
poy.r.g a tax of $216 on an income
of $4800 a year, with your employ
er also paying $216. The Forand
Ml would cut your take-home pay
even, more, by further increasing
the rate of social security taxes.
(In Maly, the cost of social secu
rity ip now 35 cents out of every
pSQflraU dollar.)
Q—Is the Forand bill necessary?
No. Health insurance has made
startling gains in the past 20 years.
Owing that period, the number of
persons covered lias gone from 12
million to 123 million. It is estim
ated that 60 per cent of the aged,
•coding and wanting health in
i sUrauxb, will '.nave it this year; 75
per cent by 1965; and 90 per cent
by 1970. Further, voluntary effort
at the community level is rapidly
developing and expanding special
facilities for the health care of the
aged. The Fo-twkI hill proposes a
permanent government scheme us
the answer to a temporary pro
Mem.
$ .Would the Forand bill help the
■wlvcent aged with the lowest in
tie. Despite rU enormous cost.
the Forand bill would not help the
indigent, for the vast majority of
them are not eligible for social se
curity retirement and survivorship
•benefits. The indigent receive
most of their medical care through
welfare programs. Aside from the
help they get from private, frater
nal, and religious organizations,
the indigent of all ages now re
ceive more than $4 billion annual
ly in ivxierai am svam aid for med
ical and other expenses.
>—Wr’.!1*! the Forand bill mean
better health care for ihe aged
persons covered?
No. It would mtran poorer, not
‘bcCtcc, health ca.e for these
PvKjpie. The mted V.al needs of
ihe aged cannot be blueprinted in
Washington, D. C. It must be
•bark' ed in each community to fit
the need.
Q-—How would the Forand bill af
fect your relationship with your
family physician?
Unfavorably. You, as a patient
would have to choose a hospital,
nuiong home or physician under
coniraot with the federal govern
ment if you were eligible for
treatment under the Forand bill.
Your doctor would be farced
to conform to administrative regu
lations which could hamper him
.♦-ana prescribing the treatment
which, in his professional opinion,
you needed.
Q—How would the vast majority of
Americans—those who aren’t re
ceiving social security payments—
be affected by passage of the For*
and bill?
They would soon find dangerous
overcrowding in their local hos
pitals, witih long waits for admis
sion. The recood of similar legis
lation in other communities makes
it p ain tihat over'use of hospitals,
without medical necessity, inevi
'ab’y occurs. The result would be
OAer beds available for the aeute
y ill of all ages within our com
mun ties.
0—If the Forand bill becomes law,
would that mean completely social
ized medicine in the United States?
Yes—it would just be a matter
of time. Some of the bill’s sup
porters are determined to social
ize medicine across the beard.
Their next step would be to .ower
the ages of eligibility, and broaden
«'foe field of coverage. This would
continue, yeaT after year, until
every American was under a rigid
■federal syrtem cf compulsory, so
cialized medicine.
CULLING THE LEADERS
A British expert on old age be
lieves that all political leaders
should be retired in their early
50s. This is the view of Prof.
Ronald Tunbridge. He seems to
feel that even though they might
gain more information in later
years, odder leaders no longer
possess the flexibility that today’s
conditions demand.
The rule, if applied, would make
quite a hole in the ranks of the
world's leaders. President Eisen
hower and President De GauHe of
France are both 69. Harold
Macmillan, the British Premier,
and Nikita Khrushchev are 66.
West Germany’s Konrad Adenauer
and Korea’s Syngman Rhee would
have been out long ago, both being
past 80.
The ranks of our would-be pres
idents would also be diminished.
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, who is
51, would have to go unless a
point were stretched. Thumbs
down also for the 58-year-old Sen.
Stuart Symington, and the 59-year
old Adai Stevenson. We could
still choose among Senators John
F. Kennedy, 42, and Hubert Hum
phrey, 48, £V»id Viols President
Nixon, who is 47.
Tunbridge’s dictum recalls the
joking remark made by the great
Canadian physician, Sir Wiliam
Osier, that ewerbody should be
chloroformed at 40. At least Tun
bridge himself cannot be putting
in a claim for a political career.
He is 53.
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Behind T*te Scenes
By Gaines Hobbs
(A WGH Associates Feature)
Groucho Marx, the old quiz boss
who wasn’t worried a minute about
recent TV scandals, has made pre
liminary arrangements to star as
Lord High Executioner in an hour
long version of “The Mikado” on
NBC TV this year.
A survey among film fans re
cently showed such interesting
faots as: Apartment dwellers are
more frequent movie goers than
home own ere Attendance increas
es with education. Jewish people
attend movies more frequently
than Catholics, who attend more
often than Protestants.
No discernible frequency dif
ferences among different income
levels. The survey was prepared
for Life magazine as a part of its
market laboratory studies.
If you are suffering such symp
toms as tired eyes, ears, nose and
throat from all the TV horse
shows, you have a severe case of
westemitus. The worst is yet to
come, if you don't like westerns.
Frank Gruber, oreator of Wells
Fargo” and “Shotgun Slade” and
still busy on others, says the gun
sagas are here to stay. His ex
planation of the audience appeal
goes like this:
“The western today is just far
enough removed from the age we
live in to take on the glamour of
nostalgia. And it’s pure Ameri
cana. Where else can you find
guttier characters, more humor,
more pathos, or downright orneri
ness, wrapped up in a single
package?”
"The western is definitely here
to stay.”
Variety’s annual all-time “dom
estic champs” again this year has
“Gone With the Wind’’ right on
top. The magazine, however, es
timates its all-time earnings just
above those of “Ten Command
ments.”
The 1939 Civil War movie rack
ed up a fantastic $33,500,000 in
this country. The estimate on the
Biblical movie was $32,000,000.
Other top money makers through
the years are “Around the World
in 80 Days,” “The Robe,” “Bridge
on River Kwai,’ “Greatest Show
on Earth,” “From Here to Eter
nity,” 'This ' k Cinerama,*
“White Christmas,” “Giant,” sad
“Samson and Delilah.”
The present top 10 TV shows ia
most neighborhoods are, in order.
“Gunsmoke," “Wagon Train.*
“Have Gun, Will Travel,” “Danny
Thomas,” “Red Skelton,” “Father
Knows Best,” "Wanted, Dead or
Alive,” “77 Sunset Strip,” “Rifle
man” and “Perry Mason.”
’ Spring Byington of “December
Bride” on CBS-TV mornings, plans
to market a new line of ladies’
nightgowns under the name of nap
sacks!
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