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As a matter ot tact, aitnougn the measure would make many changes in the social security law, only the medical benefit plan has attracted widespread discussion. In “grants-iin-aid” to the States to help pay the cost of State programs giving financial assistance to citizens 65 years of age and older who, although not completely with out resources as to be "on welfare”, are unable to pay for their hospital and other medical expenses.
This plan was adopted, in committee after two presumably more expensive proposals had been rejected the Forand bill to finance njedical benefits through the social •jecurity system for citizens receiving social security payments by raising the Social security taxes, and the Eisenhower Arministration plan to finance medical care for the elderly through the general revenues of the Treasury by subsidization of private health insurance companies, or through insurance policies sold by the Government.
(My own position has been that we should not launch any program of such magnitude, involving substantial new charges on the taxpayer, uncertain cost estimates and implications of socialized medicine, without much more careful and dispassionate study than has been possible in the current atmosphere of election-year legislating.)
In briefest outline (the committee report on the bill comprises 336 pages), the States would be invited to prepare plaits of financial assistance to the medically indigent who are not “on welfare”. If these
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