The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07


thorough pasting Aug. 20 when
Rep. Andy Biemiller Cd, Wis.,
went after the big doctors lobby
with bare fists on the floor of the
House.
Biemiller, staunch advocate of
national health insurance which the
ANA opposes, and author of a
number Of health measures, swung
from the floor to hit the ANA for
it's "99 and 44/100 percent pure re-
cord of negation, of opposition and
obstruction on practically every
Legislative measure proposed to ad-
vance the nations health, safety
and security"
Last year, the ANA was the
heaviest spending lobby in the
capital, according to reports filed
with Congress under the Lobby
Registration act. 1t is about to
launch a million-dollar d v e
against health insurance. Recently,
its spokesmen made no bones about
taking credit for defeat of Pres
ident Truman's plan to establish a
Welfare department headed by a
cabinet officer. Biemiller said the
ANA killed permanent disability
insurance and other provisions of
the new social security act, the
school health bill, and federal aid
to medical education.
He said the ANA is the "only
group in the United States today
which opposes emergency federal
aid to our schools of medicine, den
tistry, nursing, and public health.
The AMA's own members who real
ly know the situation intimately
including the deans of these
schools-oppose the AMA's official
stand vehemently, pointing out
that the very future of the finest
medical schools in this country is
at stake; that without federal aid
they must consistently fall short
Of the standards Of quantity and
quality of personnel demanded by
a nation whose requirements grow
annually"
The Milwaukee Congressman said
the AMA's deaf, dumb, and
blind" attitude toward aid to medi-
cal education was "its number one
crime against the public interest in
this session of Congress-" The Kor-
can crisis has highlighted the fact
that an emergency situation exists
in medical education, Biemiller de-
clared, but the ANA refuses to ad-
NIT it. He described the ANA as "a
private organization with dog in
the manger philosophy which has
taken to itself the privileges and
powers of semi-public and public
institutions" It's leaders, he said
are "a unique combination of sell
fishness, obtuseness, and a kind OF
paranoid malice"
The moral is that the ANA "has
become as selfish, as avaricious, as
politically dangerous as the Ma
tional Association Of Manufacture
ers," Biemiller pointed out. He ad-
ded that Congress had learned not
to "truckle" to the NAM, and said
it was high time Congress grasped
that the ANA was the same kind
Of an organization with the same
kind of views.
Meanwhile, Editor & Publisher,
trade magazine of newspaper brass,
revealed that the ANA was about
to spend 81, 100000 for advertising.
Next month the ANA plans to
blanket the country with what it
calls its message of freedom"
According to Editor a. Publisher,
the ANA will reach so million
people through the greatest num-
Der of newspaper, magazine and
radio ads ever devoted to a single
theme" The theme will be that
President Truman's labor backed
national health insurance proposals
are "socialized medicine"-if not
Communism.
The ads will run in IL COO news
papers. Extra full page displays
will appear in Sunday supplements
and national weeklies. Other ads
will be placed in trade magazines.
During the second and third weeks
of October, more than 1000 radio