“Height of Impropriety”

“Height of Impropriety”

A writer iwho’s business is to keep intouch with national affairs has said, “today in Washington circles that formerly advocated Compulsory Health Insurance, it is considered the height of impropriety even to mention it.”

What caused this rather remarkable about-face in political, circles that keep their ears to the ground and their eyes—on—lhe_ voter? The answer is obvious. The American people, taken as a whole, want no part of socialized medicine, political medicine, or any kind of medicine that would be under *government domination*

There is powerful evidence to support that statement. More than 11,000 organizations — including leading national groups which represent agriculture, labor, industry, the veterans, university women, and so on—have taken a solid stand against Compulsory Health Insurance.

The American Press, a magazine which is concerned with the problems and activities and atti-r tudes of weekly newspapers, reported that “greater support -was shown for the American Medical Association’s campaign to fight government medicine than ever has been shown in any other national campaign-—including government wartime campaigns!” It is a noteworthy fact that a great majority of our newspapers, rural and unban alike, have strongly "'opposed Compulsory Health Insurance.

This isn’t because the American people believe medicine is perfect. It is because they believe progress can best.be made under the pres-1 „ „ Jmi ^ee„,«csHnr— pn^beeanstf. they are impressed with the immense strides forward that have already been taken. Today, for example, more than 72,000,000 people are enrolled in one or other of the Voluntary Health Insurance systems. The number thus covered jumped 20,000,000 in two years. We are gradually solving the medical care problem—end solving it without political compulsion. —Industrial News Review.