The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1962-01-18
Eron, "Lifs Lines" JsnusrY 9. 1852

RI ., sr,. NJ Americas economic strength system
of competitive personal enterprise We know TINS ana 80 90 M
Those who freedom by destroying our
national power naturally their attacks this founda
ton They personal enterprise system snoud cor
lapse that is the United states Oh "
fall
it's therefore of the that Americans who are
determined America Free be constantly on the ae
attempts the personal enterprise s
tenn The freedom always looking Tor points OF p
tena Naturally they not given 70 staune ne
in plain example the welfare
are nne out much propaganda Of socialzed medicine
But they sOciaized medicine Ihey prefer
talk about they pressed hard
,hv will On further and refer compulsory health
regardless Of what they say sf are res
taking sored medicine So behooves US to find OUT all
we can about welfare state concept
may conceded that the proponents OF soczed meohe
talk compulsory The plan they advocate
is certainly compulsory everybody would whether or not
he ever medical other health services offered
and he pay largely the basis of his earnings
plan indeed compulsory but is NOT health M
there and the plan not
Insurance Of spreading specific risk eve:
large enough number OF people SO that me msn ~
each instances where
risk actually unrealistc and misleading to apply
plan to provide socaed free
dental we'll medicine to every person In the
United States,
We need to keep who advocate this com
pury health plan talking about socialized ed
cine Stated as simply possible soazed medicine govern
menoperated system of providing the
responsibility for maintaining and taking of medical
needs his family and puts the
in charge Under socaed medicine
rather than the individual the buyer ana dispenser
medical and medical needs
medicine is not concept As long ago as lS4o
obligatory health Prussia Later Bismarck In
compulsory Germany-and history
4year period worker absenteeism supposedly
the first complete
plan medical 1917 In France social
and indeed against
of those who supposed to benefit
significant and the German workers
half forced into what held up
them humanitarian scheme because they say that they
themselves would the cost in the form OF ano
They understood that tremendous power
position stronghold of bureaucracy being built up
their
Lenins influence itself felt after World War
H. His theological influence embodied in the Beveridge Plan
brought medicine the British Isles and has since
the United States
And It is threat as the experience England shows all too
clearly When the Program became England
promised medical hospital and dental care free
drugs medical appliances covered the field of health
TO relatively modest l7 million But This cost
figure " and in Ten the hsiensl
Health Service price tag EST mion-quife Jump from
original This free" service costing every Brit
ish family about $40
There may question much medical this
but there question about the
hundred Btons
employed by the Ministry Of Health-wo and haf clerks
for every British Isles In the United States govern
system would that basin call for fhs en-
pIoymenf IJ4oooo clerks, would demand
building thai would make the Penfsson look like ant
hill.
Under Engands Health Plan the patient shuled
back and poorequpped general
practitioners and undered hospitals The
federal health has to try 10 put the
relationship doctor druggist and patient producion
Participation in the rather than objective evil
the criterion for treatment The judgment of
substituted for the judgment Of physicians
This stated letter London newspaper "A
public YEARLY accepts declining standard which the
much provides Patients patiently in
their medicine treatment and GER
ticates wait endlessly for admission to
hospital sanitation of of our
hospitals changed the time of Florence Nightingale
well quickly In England The average patient
hospital three times longer than in the United States
sociaized medicine tends TO weaken
the patients for well being
socaed medicine the United States insult
the intelligence holding the lure of
free This approach designed
the people the government And the cost OF
always enters the picture Soeszsd
medicine the quality Of medical received ey
,h goes the experience of England
and IL viii experience of the United States the pro
of compulsory health insurance have their