Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-03

million to tell the American peo- ss -
pie that the governments pro- Pete Zvara
gram is "socialistic', un-American and worthy
OF nothing but scorn and rejection.
As Mr.. Oscar r.. Ewing, federal social Sc
curity administrator, told the people of Toledo
the other night these doctors are fighting
against the best interests of the American peO-
pie.
ENOR IN REALITY the governments program
Il is no more "socialistic'' than is social Sc
curity itself no more "socalistc," would saw
than the US. Post Office. The program is pro-
Jected simply to provide-on a mass scale
health insurance for the American people Too
many of our working people, particularly in
the lower wage earning class, die every year
simply because they don't have the money to
buy proper medical attention.
Under program of federal health insur-
ance the people would not face such a prob
lem. We would pay for that insurance through
regular payroll deductions so that i'm time of
illness people would simply call their own doc
tors and get the necessary medical or surgical
attention.
III IS NOT true that under this system sick
people would not be permitted to have their
own doctors to call upon them. The only diff
ference this plan would bring about is the
method OF payment for services rendered. The
government would pay the doctor and not the
patient. Now, this is precisely what some doc
tors hate about the plan The new plan would
provide for scale" of payment for these
services Doctors would not be free to charge
what the traffic will BEAR" as they do today.
1t is common practice that doctors charge their
patients what they feel their patients "can af-
ford"
MIR. EWING quite properly pointed out that
A'A those people who are today fighting fed
eral health insurance fought with just as much
Vigor, just as much vehemence against the So
ciai security law of the d-thirties At that
time social security was un-American, social
istic and communistic." Of course we know
now how stupid these accusations were But
many people did not know. In any event it
was against the bitter opposition of these reac-
tonary people that such basic laws were passed
under the New Deal of President Roosevelt
TT is NO ACCIDENT that these Park Avenue
A"specialists" find themselves on the reaction
airy side of every question in every political
fight. They are violent supporters of Sen Taft
They are doing everything in their power to
defeat Joe Ferguson for the u. S. Senate Well,
II is said that birds of feather flock together.
Taft is also bitterly opposed to everything that
is aimed to help the common people Taft
along with these specialists" cares not for the
health and welfare of the common people Why
should they? They have plenty of money Taft
and his ilk will never be turned away from
hospital because of lack of finances Taft &
Co. will never know what it means not to be
able to buy medicine for sick child . 4. . not to
be able to get hospital bed for loved one
desperately ill and desperately in need of hos
pitalization. No, Taft and his crowd will never
know this because they are on the other side of
the railroad tracks because they don't know
the meaning of the word need" and poor"
and "pennyless."
Surely this is reason enough for any self
respecting common man to reject these heart
lanc