The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-26

Washington, D. C.. May 26.--on November 2Dth or this year the committed on the costs of medical care will make public It's hnal re. port with recommendation based on It's exhaustive, hve-year study into medical problems. Dr Kay Lyman Wilbur, chairman or the committee, told representatives or the press yesterday at luncheon at tho Washington hotel.
 He announced that on May 3lT m advisory conference would pc held in Washington to obtain the opinions of experts In the helds or medicine, dentistry. nursing, phar- macy. public health, economies, sociology, social insurance, taxation aud industry, who have been inVits cd 10 assist in the deliberations or the committees members in m advisory capacity.
 Tn his discussion Of the commit tee'a work and It's outstanding ma. inrs to date, Dr Wilbur stressed fhe fact that the committee on the costs of medical care is q private orga imitation, supported by volun' tary contributions from various eroups, for the sole purpose Of dis. paseionate inquiry Into the best in. tercets of tho general public anad ths ,nedica and allied profess
 Challenging Health Problem
 Pointing out that during the last two centuries the United States mad been freed from gcourges such as yellow fever cholera, bub0nic plague and smnllpax, pr Wilbur aseerted that to-day we still race challenging health problem, that of providing adequate curative ma preventive medical service for all our people. A subBtantiaI portion of the American people, pr Wilbur said, have been cut or rom 'the benefits of modern medical art ana science because of tho costs or medicni servicea; at the same time, many doctors and other prActiuon' srs are not receiving incomes com. fnensurate with their long years or training, and hospitals arc racing financial difficulties. "To.day the various professions concerned and the pubic are ln- creasingiy interested in the gues' ton described by pr olin west. secretary Of tho American MedienI association, as the one great oui' standing problem before tho meai' cal profession, namely the deily; cry of adequate, scientihc medlchl care to all the people, rich ana poor, at cost which cap pc rcn' senably met by them n their rs. speetlve stations In ire. Dr WIZ bur said. t was tho wido ana deep interest in this problem on the part of both the public ana the pr"es tttioners. hc statcdw, that iea so by aRrouD of physicians, econo. nisAs and public health workers in ioSS' The committee began It's research In January, 1928.
 TTircc.fOld Purpose
 The purposes of the committee are three fold, Dr Wilbur stated: 1, TO ascertain the facts at pres ent regarding:
 Sa) The extent of disease and
 disability requiring medical
 services.
 fb) The present facilities for
 dealing with those condi' fc) The costs to the family of
 medical services.
 fd1 Tho returns accruing 10 VIZ physicians and other practi-
 tioners furnishing services.
 (e) Tho development of gpecinls
 " iy orga nIsed facilities for
 providing medical care to
 particular groups in the
 population. 2, TO anaiyse those facts eareiul. iy and systematically with h WOW ID determining,
 ta) What are tho important do.
 VII fects in the present system
 of providing medical scrv.
 ice.
 m What is now being dono to
 remedy these defects.
 fe1 What more can Do done. A. T'o DreDare C series of recon.
 ftendati0ns looking toward tho
 development of q program Tor
 providing m0reand better mcn'
 jcaj service to the people with
 n proper regard to the rights 4 of the professional persons concerned.
 Tn his address, Dr Wilbur touched briefly on the membership Of the committee, which, he said, is eom' posed of GO members aB foliows' i4 private practitioners of medi: cine; 2 private practitioners Of dentintry, c representation or pup. lis henith; 12 representatives, Of institutions and special interests q econ0mists and s0ci0l0gists; 10 rcpresentative Of tho public. lits investigations are conducted by a research staff, with hcadguartert in Washington, D. G. under the direotvion of Dr Harry II. Moore, Medical associations and other professional groups are co0pernt' Ing in ths work being done.
 Funds for the undertaking nave been. furnished by the Carnegie corporation, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, Julius Rosenwald fund, MiIbnnk Memorial fund, New York Foundation, H0ckefellef Foundation. Russell Sage Founda' ion, Social Science Research council, twentieth Century fund and Vermont Commission on Coun' try Life. L.
 The work of the committee is further supplemented by studios conducted by the American Mcdi. cal association, American Dental { association, United States Public Health Service. Metropolitan Ilfe Insurance compan National Bu- rcnu of Economic Research, Ma ttonai Committee for dentny Hy- gIene, National TubcrcJl0sis asso' citation. United States treasury de- partment.
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