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Show Government Control A "Disaster" Socialized medicine would mean greater security for doctors. Therefore, There-fore, the medical profession, in opposing socialization, is not grinding grind-ing the ax of personal gain. This is hard for medical critics who think comfort is the millennium, to understand. Doctors oppose government domination dom-ination of medicine for two reasons: rea-sons: First, because it would lower medical standards and bring about inferior medical service to the people. peo-ple. Second, because, as American citizens with a background of freedom free-dom and individualism, they have no alternative but to oppose any measure which they feel is a threat to American institutions and Constitutional Con-stitutional government. Socialized medicine, like socialization of industry in-dustry would hasten the end of freedom in this nation. The doctors have been accused of selfishness and blind conservatism conserva-tism in their battle against government gov-ernment medicine. If they were selfish they would not be killing themselves tryuig to maintain the health of the nation during the present crisis. They are far from blind conservatives, because more than anyone else, they come into contact with misfortune and death. They are working constantly to broaden and improve medical care. Some measure of their success is indicated by the fact that the span of life in the last century-and-half has been increased from 35 to 62 years almost doubled. , The attitude of physicians on the issue of socialized medicine has been well described by Rear Admiral Ad-miral Ross T. Mclntire, the President's Presi-dent's personal physician. "It is my hope," he said, "that we shall never see medicine subsidized by the government. I hope that the time never comes when the practice prac-tice of medicine or anything that has to do with it comes under government gov-ernment control. It would be a disaster to this country ..." |