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SINK KINDS OF HEMCHE Dorothy Thompson devoted one of her recent columns to the proposed bill to establish compulsory government health insur- ance. She observed that she had lived under socialized and reg- imented medical systems in England, Austria and Germany. She had this to say about them: p “They cost the people far too much. They provide inferior services at a high price. They are incapable of dealing with real- ly serious and complicated cases. They result in two sorts of med- icine—good medicine for the well-to-do; and bad for the masses* at high cost to those who can least afford it. And they build up a vested interest of physicians and bureaucrats which the people wfll never get rid of." V- Miss Thompson can hardly be branded as a black reactionary -which is one of the labels the socialists often pin on those who do not agree with the premise that the cure for everything is more and more government and more and more tames ofall kinds. She observes that this country certainly does need better health service, and that the people who honestly can t afford to pay for adequate care must be assisted. But, as she says: “Just why tins most inventive country seems compelled blindly to copy social meagnrpg originating elsewhere is baffling." A segment of the American people, apparently believe that we can succeed with schsnwa which have been utter failure everywhere else. And that attihrie, if it is reflected in action, could be dnasteroua. The compulsory health insurance plan is simply one of the planks in a platform that would create a total state. And social- ised medicine will come as surely as night follows day if we give the bureaucrats control over medical practice.
The Detroit News-Herald (Detroit, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1949,
newspaper,
February 3, 1949;
Detroit, Texas.
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