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Show Utah Medics Back Fluoridation of Water Resolutions favoring fluoridation fluorida-tion of water supplies, the fostering foster-ing of medical schools and scholarships, schol-arships, and the proper labeling of poisonous products passed by the House of Delegates of the Utah State Medical Association this week. In addition, the delegates, representing rep-resenting some 800 physicians, expressed continuing opposition to federal legislation of the type fostering socialization of medicine. medi-cine. Attending the third Interim Session of the USMA House of . Delegates at the University of Utah, the medical men stressed that action recently taken with the Blue Shield organization will provide prepaid medical care for persons over 65 years of age at reduced fees. Increasing numbers of citizens are covered by medical insurance programs during the latter years of their lives, and Utah's physicians physi-cians already care for the indigent indig-ent aged, it was made clear. "Measures of the type of the Forand Bill now in Congress are a faulty approach to a serious nrnhlpm." it. was nnintprl nut Designed to provide hospital and surgical care for persons over 65 under social security, such measures would bankrupt the social security program and endanger old age pension programs pro-grams "while not providing medical med-ical care of the sort we desire for the aged," delegates stressed. Urging an enlarged program of scholarships for medical stu-detns, stu-detns, and construction of new medical schools on a nationwide basis, the USMA warned that the "output" of trained physicians physi-cians must be boosted four per cent in the next ten years to meet population growth. The fluoridation resolution termed treatment of culinary supplies "a safe and effective means of reducing the dental caries." Labelling fluoridation a "safe, effective and in keeping with American philosophy," of utilizing scientific advances to combat disease, the State Medical Medi-cal Association voted full support sup-port of efforts to provide water treatment as recommended by the U. S. Public Health Service, American Dental Association, American Medical Association, and similar organizations. |
