The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-10
URGES NEED
OF HEALTH
INSURANCE
DR.. 3. S. Warren Sees
Movement For Dis
ease Prevention
EX-WARDEN OF
SING SING TALKS
American Academy of
Medicine In Annual
Session Here

Just .as the safety first movement
has been consequential 10 the work
mems compensation laws, so will
health insurance laws. which make
similar provisions with respect to
sickness, result in a movement for
disease prevention, DR.. Is. ) War
rem, surgeon in the United States
public health service, told members
Of the American Academy of Medi.
cine AT the opening session OF their
forty-tirst annual convention in the
Hotel Statler. Friday.
His paper was devoted 10 THE re-
lation of medical benefits OF health
insurance to existing health
agencies"
In beginning his address, Dr. War.
rem said that medical practice was
organized on the wrong basis. be-
cause ii Is a livelihood gained from
the misfortune Of others.
Before employing a health insur-
ance system. DR. Warren stressed
the point OF providing adequate ma
chinery for the prevention of dis
ease
"Of course. the physicians DIM
culties are that he derives no in.
come from his work I'm the interest
OF prevention" he said.
To get the best results from
health insurance system he cited the
following recommendations adopted
AT a recent conference OF state aud
government health officers:
Provision OF medical staffs In the
federal and state health depart
ments, to carry into effect the regu-
lations issued by the central gov
erning boards.
Sufficient incentive for the cooper.
alton OF the medical profession.
Close cooperation OF health insur.
snce systems with state and local
health boards
With proper medical service
health insurance should become a
public health measure farther reach
ing than any that has ever yet been
enacted into law" DR.. Warren con.
tinued
DR.. George A. Hare, OF Fresno,
Cal. president or the society, in an
address In the evening. said that
sickness must be cured at public ex-
pense. and that the medical profes.
sion should father national legisla.
ton for social insurance
Social insurance must guarantee
that each person will have enough
clothing. food. rest and recreation
TO keep his vitality above the dan
ger line from the ravages OF tuber.
culosis and such Diseases" he said
When society treats all sickness
by the government insurance plan 1t
will be found cheaper than to sup
port constitutional wrecks.
Government support for mothers
and children was advocated, a pro
vision made all the more necessary,
he declared, by the evil OF the mod
ern apartment house.
Thomas Mott Osborne. former war
den OF Sing Sing. spoke on Prison
reform and told OF his conclusions
after weeks voluntary imprison.
ment in New Yorks prison.
TO make men III FOR liberty you
must give them liberty he said
ITO make them NJ for self-control
when they are free. you must make
them sell.controling when they are
In prison"
A startling instance OF the result
OF six months OF self government
was cited In the behavior OF 400
convicts when the prison dynamo
broke down ~ the men were as
scmbled 10 hear famous pianist.
leaving them in darkness The war
den walked through the throng of
slayers and Cuf-tEroats with a flick.
ering lantern in his hand, without
mOlestAtion.
THE study OF the relations or
medicine 10 society" is the purpose
OF the academy, under the scope OF
which come child labor, working.
mems compensation laws, insurance
against sickness and unemployment.
and the legal problems that affect
doctors. This last subject ls the
keynote OF the present convention.
Several hundred physicians from
all over the country belong to the
American Academy OF Medicine. II
was organized in 1876