Show Ways to Give Proper Medical Care To U U. S. S at Right Cost to Be Studied W WASHINGTON May 22 AP I AP-I The ills of the medical profession with relation to charges made for treating the ills of the people areto are arc areto to be investigated Plans for tor a year five-year program of research by a committee of ot eminent I physicians sanitarians economists economIsts' and laymen with a view to solving the question of how howa a family of moderato moderate means can secure adequate ade- ade adequate adequate ade ade- quate medical attention at a cost which It afford were announced Dr Lyman Wilbur Wil WH Wilbur Wil- Wil here today by Ray nay university bur president of Stanford organized or organized organized or- or sity sUy and chairman of oC the newly committee first of its The Investigation the tue attempted will Be kind ind ever to be conducted jointly by the American Medical l association the tile Metropolitan tan Life Insurance company the public health service and other agencies Financial support has been supplied by the Carnegie corporation corporation corporation cor cor- the the memorial fund the Russell Sage foundation and the twentieth century fund PRESENT CO COST T HIGH The importance of the problem may be better appreciated said sald Dr Wilbur when It is realized that tile the resent present cost pf illness Ulness to the people of the United States Is probably over p per year pie Ic said there thele w were re a million personS persons persons per per- sons en engaged aged In curing and pre- pre Continued on page 5 5 Ways to Give Proper Medical edic l C Care re reT T To IoU U. U S. S at Right C Cost st to Be Studied Continued from PaS PaS- page 1 Venting disease and billions than five other ther Invested in hospitals and eqUipment yet a large ot of group are not medical receiving neede their treatment at costs Within means mean Complaints of f hl high h charges are becoming frequent and I 1 tear feat souse some ot of them are justified he added The cause ot of th the difficulty he continued ed Is the larg number of 1 separate 1115 must be paid not the 8 amount Of the tue physicians physician's cans chr charge Physicians as a group are I not earning adequate quat Income sj aid and for fOl many ninny hospitals and other ta fa t s for tor scientific work Worle are lack lack- lackI lackIng iri Ing ng Nurses and dentists too fall fail to rec receive lve sa satisfactory returns for tor their labors A Apparently It U is the present system which is at fault tault COMMITTEES COMMITTEE'S PURPOSE Th The Tue res research arch bOd body known as as- the committee on the tho cost of ot medical 1 hopes by its its' care caro findings to en en- en ri- ri courage courage practical experimentation by the medical profession and the public and to lay Jay tho foundation for fOI adequate medical treatment to the whole population at reasonable cost under conditions which willm will m maintain t tile the e personal relations of ot the doctor and his patient and as asSure assure as- as s. s sure the physician nurse nurs dentist and other agents adequate compensation compensation com corn for services rendered With Vitis Dr Wilbur on the committee commit tee tee tee- are ale Dr C. C E E. A. A WinsloW Yale university school of medicine Seaboard National National Na- Na a- a Chellis A. A Austin 1 bank New York and Dr Dc Washington Dr Harry Halry H. H Moore Winslow also is chairman of ot an comprising DI Dr executive committee Walter P P. Bowers vers Clinton Mass Mass- Michael II If Davis New York Helen F. F Draper New York Dr Haven Emerson New York falter Walter alter H. H Hamilton Washington ton Dr t. t J. J Shelton Shelton Shel- Shel ton Horsley Richmond Va a. and Dr Dt Walter Waiter R. R Hartford Conn Coon |