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Show Rep. King Promises to Support Medicare With Vote This Year Rep. David S. King said Thursday Thurs-day he has made up his mind that he "definitely will support hospital hos-pital care for the aged through social security if it comes to a vote in the House this year." "Intensive study has convinced me," Congressman King said, "that this is the conservative approach ap-proach to a serious national need. "If we handle hospital care for the senior citizen through social security, we move in the direction direc-tion of making it self-sustaining, so that it ceases to be an ever- only their own savings but those of their sons and daughters, and in so doing, rob their grandchildren grandchil-dren of educational opportunities. opportuni-ties. "Financed through the social security method, this care would draw about 25 cents a week from th'e average Utahn's paycheck, and it would protect each of us against the possibility of seeing the savings of a lifetime wiped out by illness after retirement," Mr. King said. expanding dole from the federal and state treasuries. "I have carefully examined the arguments against this proposed pro-posed program, and I find that most of them brand it as something some-thing which it is not. "It is not socialized medicine. "Using the social security system sys-tem to meet the hospital care need of senior citizens will in fact, I believe, do more to keep American medicine from drifting into the British pattern than any other single move we could make," Congressman King declared. de-clared. "Some of the attacks hurled at this proposed program leave the idea that it would cover doctors doc-tors and doctor bills. It definitely would not. "It would cover only hospital bills and would cover them only under certain limitations, for persons 65 and over. "What Americans must recognize recog-nize is that countless retired citizens citi-zens do not now seek care of serious illnesses simply because they fear the high cost of it. "They do not want to be objects ob-jects of charity. Moreover, they fear that this care will wipe out their assets and leave them paupers," Congressman King asserted. as-serted. "But. above all else, they fear that they will be a burden upon their families that their hospital hos-pital care ' would wipe out not |