in tms, we need not con- !

in tms, we need not con- ! sider foreign policy in its principal aspects--here, by I Constitutional authority and ; general agreement, the'■ President is supreme. In the cold war, the nation must speak with one voice, and that voice is his. But domes- i tic policy is an entirely dif- | ferent matter. For example. | it is likely that the Adminis- [ tration will throw all the weight and authority it can j muster behind Medicare-- I the plan whereby everyone j drawing social security be- j nefits would become entitled to a wide-range of govern- i ment-provided medical ser- j vices. The Medicare bill fail- j ed last session, and it is common knowledge that the President felt a Jeep anger ; at the rebuff. It is also ! likely that the new Medicare bill will be broadened, to provide the same benefits for several million people in the 65-and-over age group who are not within the social J security program. Some of the supporters of I j Medicare—and, to look at ! i the problem more broadly, ! I of other possible programs j which would require more I and more government in- ; | volvement in the national I health picture—have chosen as a weapon of argument that private medicine has j failed to rise to the need, j The other side of this story j was recently told by Dr. i | George M. Fister, the new j | president of the American Medical Association. In his I words, “Hippocrates, the great Greek physician, once said, "Strong maladies re7 j quires strong medicine.-’ j These words have special. j meaning for the medical l profession today....we must i diagnose the malady and I treat it with truth.”