New Health Scheme In U.S.A.
Compulsory Medical
Insurance
London, April 22.'"" President Truman has asked Congress to agree to compulsory medical insurance as part of a new national health scheme.
In a message to Congress, Mr Truman said the traditional method of paying for medical care could not meet the health needs of today. He recommended a system by which the Government would pay for medical bills from a fund collected by special taxes. In answer to criticisms of his health insurance plan, Mr Truman said it would not mean that doctors would become employees of the Government: it would nol disturb the freedom of doctors in hospitals to decide the type and amount of treatment to be given; and patients wt U'd be free to choose their own doctors and doctors would remain free to accept or reject patients. A Washington correspondent says I hat when the plan was sent to Congress, today, it was denounced by its opponents as a step which would lead to Socialism.
The same cry had been heard in <he dav in connection with Ihe public housing programme which authorises considerable slum clearance and the construction of over 800,000 public housing units during the next six years. '
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14959, 23 April 1949, Page 3
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