The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-26
Sociulized Medicine

JOCNOIASU SotSs
The attention of people in this country is being focused
On sociaIized medicine, which is what we Will have IN tn N
United States if Congress enacts the compulsory health IN
surance wanted by Messrs. Truman, Wagner, Murray ct ans
This newspaper is unalterably opposed to socializa-
lion of a-nything-especially medicine. We know tnaa wn1a
the people depend upon the state for anything 'hey y.
Giving up their personal freedom and right to think as they
please. They are losing the traditional qualities OF cnaraS
Ter which have made this country the greatest in the worio
When we trade our system of individual initiative and pri-
rate enterprise for any system which attempts TO give M ~
ing our birthright and becoming lost in wishful dreaming.
IA. GOBLIN. writing in the Summit (Miss) Sun has the
Following to say on the subject which should be OF interest
to all those who do not wish to see the sociaEstlc system IN
stalled in this country.
Much has been both written and spoken in the last
few years concerning a subject which this writer Deileves
is gnawing like a rodent and eating like q cancer, at the "a,
who would like to have its octopus-Ike tenacles envelop us
Compulsory Health Insurance" but bringing it out from
under cover it is known as "Socialized Medicine"
According to this writer's manner of thinking (and
he has been giving it a lot of thought) compulsory nealtn
insurance means nothing more or less than politically con-
troiled medicine. 1t is a threat to health and q threat 70
fronting the American people today and the biggest CUES
tion before us, is whether or not this Nation, with it's tradi-
fion of freedom and private enterprise, its foundation OF
personal liberty and individual initiative, should adopt a
program OF National Compulsory Health Insurance.
Are we to preserve. improve and expand the system
If medical care which has made the United States the
leaIthiest Nation in the World and the center Of scientific
development and medical knowledge? Or-are we to accept
the stuitifying philosophy OF
observation-disclosures, and adopt a system OF polucai
medicine, with the bureaucratlcally controlled medical
machine, that is bound to result from it?
The ultimate outcome of this issue will have a direct,
personai effect on every American-young or old, rich or
noor. regardless OF race, creed, color, occupation or political
: wpoint. 1t is a problem that concerns our own wealth,
Or Nations welfare and the welfare of our families. That
s.one makes this issue of paramount Importance to every
0ne OF us. 1t is a problem that concerns the entire poltlcal.
s0cia4 and economic structure OF one OF the last great Tree
Nations on earth!
The record proves conclusively that the adoption OF
National Compulsory Health Insurance constitutes the most
dangerous step toward ultimate reorganization OF the people
and the creation of q despotc, Socialist State. Before con-
aidering the evils and dangers inherent in a system OF Com-
paIsory Health Insurance, let's take a sharp look at the ORR
grin of this issue:
various agencies of the Federal Government have been agl-
Eating for the enactment Of Compulsory Health Insurance
legislation in the United States.
1t is a plan for Government control and direction OF
all doctors, hospitals, drug stores and clinics and medical
schools. a plan originated in Germany in 1883 and later en-
braced by Soviet Russia, Socialist Britain, and many other
foreign countries.
Advocates of socaization have been carrying on their
propaganda activities with untold millions in tax dollars
paid into the Federal Treasury by American taxpayers. TIC
further their program, the Wagner Murray -Dingell Bills have
been introduced at several past sessions of Congress. They
have been publicized adroitly by their sponsors as the means
to save lives, vastly improve everybodys health, solve al
the Nations health problems, attain all the health goals, tx
which the medical profession itself is constantly devoted
and provide medical care at a pttance for everybody.
Sponsors of government-controled medicine, il
urging adoption of the Wagner-Murray Dingell Bills, have
painted the American medical scene and American doctors
blackdy, grossly, (here in America, where health care ane
health standards are the highest in the world) in a country
whose standards of care and whose medical research an
most among nations.