Show American M Medical d cal Association Hits New Costs Plan Brands Committee Proposal as Socialism Communism and Inciting to Revolution NEW YORK Nov 30 UP The UP-The The American Medical association today announced its opposition to the recommendations recommendations rec rec- of tho committee on the costs of medical care After Alter five live years' years study of the relation rela rela- lion tion of medicine to the people the committee recommended a partial so socialization socialization socialization so- so of medicine Chief ChIc of its proposed methods was development of medical centers supported by monthly group contributions or taxation taxation taxation taxa taxa- tion or both where all forms of medical medical medical medi medi- cal service would be available The IThe association saw in the report an arm inciting to revolution It termed it socialism even communism tam The Medical Journal organ of the association tion devoted a number of f pages to the committees committee's findings and urged doctors to support the leading minorIty minority minority minor minor- ity report which recommended reestablishment reestablishment re- re establishment of the family faintly doctor and the decentralization of ot medicine The alignment is clear the Journal Journal Jour Jour- nal nat said On the one side the forces representing the great foundations public health officialdom social theory the the- and communism ory even ory-even socialism i melting citing to revolution on the other side the organized medical proCession profession sion slon of this country urging an orderly evolution guided by controlled experimentation experimentation exper exper- which will observe the principles that have been found through the centuries to be necessary to the sound practice of medicine The Journal accused Harry H H. Moore director of the research o of personal bias for insurance schemes and indeed for governmental tice So definite was the trend of the committees committee's studies In this direction that one must view the expenditure of almost a n million dollars by the tho committee and its final report with mingled amusement and regret the Journal said |