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Show Blue Cross Hospital Plan To Start Here Preparatory to launching a community-wide program to secure the Blue Cross hospital plan of Insurance Insur-ance for locf.l citizens the Iron County Record has agreed to run a series of explanatory articles until April 17th. At this time the Iron Cctny Hospial Board will sponsor the appearance of D . O. Wight. Salt Ltke City, executive director, Inter-mountain Hospital Service, Mr. Wight will meet with the Coordinating Co-ordinating Cornell by special request re-quest of the hospital board, and all interested citizens are ' invited to participate. In 1929, a group of teachers in Bay!or. Texas, were faced with the fact that as Individuals they roull not save enough to pay hospital bills in an emergency. Millions of other Americans had found themselves them-selves in the same plight without doing anything about it. By a little lit-tle figuring, the teaohers found that as a group they could easily pay all the hospital bills they were likely to Incur. So they persuaded the University hospital at Baylor o "gree, for $3 each school semester, semes-ter, to provide twenty-one dpys of hospital care to any one or them who needed such care. When he experiment proved successful, others besides school teachers a.sk-rd a.sk-rd to be included in the plnn .Other hospitals followed suit, but ln cities having more than one hospital, overlapping and competitive difficulties diffi-culties arose. It became clear that t0 be really successful, any plan would have to include nearly all the hospitals ln the area and permit per-mit the patient to choose the one he wished. This was the beginning of the Blue Cross. The idea spread until today there r.re 86 Blue Cross Plans scattered over the United States. The plans differ In some respcts as to the amount of protection offered and the method or operation, but In general, they follow a common pattern. pat-tern. , Blue Cross, by the use of small, regular payments, makes hospital care possible for all subscribers without financial worry or depletion of pavings. I The Green Color Division of the Iidles Junior Chamber of Com- imerce were hostesses at an entertainment enter-tainment dinner Monday evening ( which will be a challenje to all , other divisions this season. The af-! af-! fair, well attended by members and I I guests, and held at the Airport J Stenk House, began with a delicious , nipper, followed by competitive Bridge and Rook games. High fore winners were Vera Llston. Ann Edwards, Edna Sargent and Melba Asnv.is. The successful hostesses were Captain Cora lleaton, .and Co-C:.ptaln Co-C:.ptaln lone Bolander. Division members were Evelyn Heaps, He'-f He'-f Dlx. Mary Buhnnan and Janet Leigh. |