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Show i I I lit ;ri 1 I 'IS The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 10 The Utah Independent November 6, 1975 European Doctors Testify: National Health Systems Have Failed invitation the At on (R-Ill- M. the on Ways and choice care systems testified of on 12, Health September Friday, the 1975, before Subcommittee Committee Means. are form a of rationing. Crane, ranking Republican Subcommitte, said delighted with the these very articulate Congressman second on the skyrocketed. of Philip five experts ), foreign medical demand Since this demand cannot be fully met, noted Mr. some form of Lejeune, rationing has to be introduced. Delays, long waiting lists, perfunctory office consultations, lack of Congressman Crane of he was insights witnesses have given us. I am especially grateful to the Congress of County Medical Societies for bringing Mr. Anthony Lejeune, Dr. Reginald Murley, and Dr. Max Gammon to Washington from London. I also appreciate very much the time generously given by Dr. Donald Quinlan and Dr. Sigmund Lofstead. Drs. Murley, Gammon and Quinlan have all practiced under Britains national health service. Mr. Lejeune has been a patient in it, and Dr. Lofstead has practiced under the similar Swedish system. We in will do well to heed the experiences of England and Sweden with governmental medicine. It has been a dismal failure in Congress There has been a disastrous deterioration of morale under the NHS, said Dr. Murley. The staff in our hospitals large teaching are dispirited. Even senior doctors are resigning to emigrate to British other countries. doctors emigrate from the UK at the rate of 300 to the 400 per year equivalent of the annual output of four of our medical schools. - The theoretical basis for delivery of medical care by the State, Dr. Gammon told the Subcommittee, rests on one of two basic assumptions. ..thatis centralized superior to planning individual decision in the managing of resources and requirements, ..or that the state is capable of creating personal resources in excess of the aggregate generated by individuals. The ' first of these.. cannot be supported by an objective assessment of the historical record or an examination of the performances of currently nationalized concerns the world over.. .The second. .is false. self-evident- ly Dr. Lofstead: enormous cost Said Despite the increases, patient waiting lines in Sweden are growing everywhere. The extended care crisis has chronic. ..The become experience from Britain and Sweden and other health-car- e n government-ru- systems could be put on a blueprint: income confiscatory taxes, flourishing inefficiency, bureaucracy, widespread abuses, and skyrocketing inflation, plus economic burdens . serious on industry. Dr. Quinlan summed it said up, Congressman when he told us Crane, neither the record in this country nor in any other country will sustain the assumptionagentsthat are governmental better qualified to determine the medical needs of citizens than the citizens themselves. -- Philip M. Crane (Cong.) for care, especially non-urge- When medical care was HAND OVER YOUR CANAL OR made free under the NHS, ILL BLOW YA TO BITS! Medals To Nixon & Ford From Mao rendered for victory are Indochinese to be evaluated and rewarded. A statement to this effect was made, not by Peipings surprisingly, Foreign Minister Chiao on May 20 this year when he spoke behind closed doors on the world situation to leading cadres assembled in Tientsin from all over the mainland. Kuan-hu- a Although Chiao made it clear that he was, instead of representing authority, the central merely presenting some of his own views, the address-expos- ed by free Chinese sources in release -an 8,000-wor- d contains what is really at the bottom of Peipings external dealings. co-foun- self-interes- ts. ci -- 1 operations. Official figures show that 37'? wait more than a year, and nearly 207c more than two years. services 16-1- 9) 1 1 nt Nixon deserves a gold medal, a silver must go to Ford, and many generals and congressional leaders of the U.S. should also be variously decorated if Copyright Jo Hindman 1975 Odd thing about the un- Why now are the formerly dis- preceden ted coming meeting (Nov. parate sections of 1313 closing of the New York based National Municipal League the camera? Apparently the metrocrats are (NML) with the federal Advisory worried over two matters: revenue Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (AC1R) is that the sharing (expires 123176), and the criminal justice event brings together powerful controversial Enforcement forces whose stance heretofore has system of the Law disAssistance Admn. (LEAA) which expressed almost caste-lik- e earned its black eye by advocating dain. one for the other. NML, composed of bankers, handgun control. Merriam. Robert present lawyers, professors, poses as a civic a 1313 of son finance and and drafts chairman ACIR but organization will preside over the bond investment laws fruitful to AlsoNMLis ACIR portion of the joint meeting. private notorious as the promoter of the He will develop the new look in nationwide movement that revises federal financing block grants and local and the Safe Street Act. People state constitutions charters to make them useful to the recognize that as a pussylike name metrocrats who promote unbridled to cloak gun control. Robert G. Mauney, Richland County (S.C.) appointee governance. ACIR, reworking the manager and Ms. Elinor Ostrum prof.. Indiana Univ.. are geography under that ruling poli-spower, seeks to extend regionalism listed as speakers on LEAA. over every inch of land in the Brookings Institution, an old NML and ACIR crony, whose United States. In the late thirties, NML was personnel headed the first revenue invited to align with the 1313 sharing task force, is sending senior syndicate in Chicago but declined, fellow Richard P. Nation to the NML-ACI- R meet at Chicagos staying on in New York but senAdPalmer House. ding its splinter Municipal ACIR staffers last July briefed ministration Service to join 1313 in Chicago. MAS later became PAS. Congress on revenue sharing, that h, hollow mockery of the present Public Administration Service at 1313. doled from a national is ACIR of course made up of treasury emptied of wealth and an indigestible collection of 1313 clouded by debt. Seven days the National L.H. Fountain subcommittee held groups: the Governors Conference (NGC), hearings: House IntergovernmenNational League of Cities (NLC). tal Relations & Human Resources Conference of Mayors (USCM), (Note the H.I.R.H.R. lengthened National Assn, of Counties name), part of 1313's pipeline into (NACo). Council of State Congress. in Governments (CSG). Some 1313 Speakers scheduled adjuncts have relocated in D.C.. Chicago include U.S. Sen. E. S. some stay at midwest locations and Muskie (what does he do for his at the 1313 E. 60th St.. Chicago State of Maine?), also John E. Bebout. Housto n. a 3 3 activist in headquarters. created ACIR. the drive for a new metro Congress 3 3's live-i- n constitution for Texas. lobby. See PL Dozens of 1313 organizations The total interlock has have joined in to make the Chicago operated through decades of event one of the largest roundups of metrocrats in history. feigned anonymity NML watThe NML-ACI- R meeting will ching the money angles in New York; in Chicago. 1313 keeping the afford opportunities for machinery oiled; the ACIR colony metrocrats to raise and maintain lobbying inside federal lobbying strength to push LEAA government while cranking out the laws and to force Congress to renew revenue sharing. prefab, laws to lobby for. oft-televis- ed national health insurance. Said Anthony Lejeune: Health Service patients have to wait up to four years THE share-the-wealt- both countries, for patients and doctors. If we wish to avoid the deterioration of care and higher taxes both systems have brought, we will avoid all further governmental intervention in medical SMIRKING FOR CAMERA That in as Chiaos words translated something, by the writer column, is: of this -- As long as we persist in never permiting revisionism for ourselves, no one can influence us no matter how Marxism-Leninis- they try. a -- When you try to have go at diplomacy, you somethimes have to drag things through mud and water instead of always harping on a single theme. -- We do not export revolution. But to provide support - moral, spiritual and material to the democratic revolutions of various people has been, is, and will continue to be our inalienable duty in the face of internationalism. -- If we send out soldiers for jobs that others can do, we will be fighting wars without a just cause and furthermore will be - shouldering unnecessary Tse-Tu- ng burdens. But assistance to the revolutionary struggles of various countries is our fixed state system that cannot be changed. If we were to change it, our surname would be Hsiu (for instead of Ma or (for Marxism). said the Chiao Kuan-hu- a he had just made to trip France with Deputy Premier was Teng Hsiaoping to kill three birds, not just two, with a stone -(1) to cheer up the French who are afraid that Moscow' may decide to swallow them up at one gulp, (2) to let the Americans see that they may go (as they withdrew from Indochina) if we let them but cannot but stay if we are determined to hog them down, and (3) to pull one leg and at the same time apply a club on the Russian head. If Chou F.n-lhadnt ai 86-38- 0. 1 been he would have taken the trip himself, Chiao said, for a chance ill, this (right after Indochina) cannot be like missed. But Chiao added: This (the visit) does not mean that the French leaders are of a family merely with us. We support their and anti-U.stand. We are not for their system. That system must be overthrown one of these days. Chiao said Moscow now anti-Russi- an wants S. the American imperialists to pull back their dirty hands and wash them clean Mississippi, in the but the Americans, if they do so, will be playing themselves right into the revisionist Russian hand and Peiping, contradictory as it may sound, does not want such Russian advances. The world divided into three portions but all eventually have to be Red under Communism, Chiao said, adding that all the strength that can be united must be put together first against the common enemy the American and Russian superpowers. But a line has to be drawn between the two giants. If we push them too hard, we may force them into uniting together. That will give us quite a hard nut to crack. Thats why we talk is - about primary and secondary targets. This is the essence of division and conquest. Chiao said the following about Indochina: out The Americans pulled of Indochina, leaving puppets to When become scapegoats. Kissinger visited Peking for the first Continued on page 1 1 |