Show PROBLEM OF MEDICAL COST B By SECRETARY OF OP TilE TIE INTERIOR RAY LYMAN WILBUR The American medi medical al profession ion ultra modern in science is woe woefully fully ully archaic in economics M Medicine has hns never been heen adjusted to the th strides o oJ modern business As result tho a cost to the public of obtaining the benefit of medical nl rare care i is exorbitant The profession has pro progressed re mightily in scientific discoveries erics in combating disease and prolonging life It has hos stood so 80 far for a as adjusting its financial aspect is concerned A survey of Ih the m medical expenses of a group of government nt employees employees' showed that they had spent on the wide range from 07 per cent ent of their annual salaries to per cent ent This grossly uneven burden hurden shows tin till extreme hardship imposed on those thole families in the hi higher her brackets We have planned a n year five pro program ram covering all angles angl's of the medi medical medical cal cost problem At the end nd of that time we expect to be able to mcki mck a definite recommendation to the profession and to the public which wit will remedy the situation Medical mm mN mu t face the problem and aud can cnn gain nothing by stub born unreasonable p resistance I 1 have often told audiences of Either you are going to do it or it its going goin to be done to you Meanwhile nil all experiments experiment and plans many of which ar are in process Iro of being launched can ran do no 10 harm hein hy by being given iven trials They should all aU prove useful in writing miring at the ultimate solution |