Show Doctors Under Bureaucrats According to an AP dispatch h from Lon London d on HE 11 t mn 5 national health service the the worlds world's biggest experiment in m a strain That strain socialized medicine is undergoing the fact tact in the view of Health I Minister Bevan results from too much In other words that too many are demanding that they may as well people are working on the theory sick not because free tree free visit the doctor whether they are or medical service is coming to them This situation has reached Bevan issued a public statement statement state state- I so extreme a p point int that Mr become a nation of ot me ment n t in which he said Dont let us hypochondriacs I ask the public to use their doctors wisely and only when they really need them It is also evident that the cost of providing allegedly free health service for all is approaching g a critical point The governments government's original forecast was that the bill would But the actual cost according according according ac ac- ac- ac run to pounds a year cording to the British Medical Association will exceed pounds The most important thing of course is just dust what Britain's socialistic experiment is doing to the standards of medical care And here too some significant and authoritative authoritative authoritative information is available Lord Horder physician in ordinary to the royal family has this to say Medicine in Britain has become a branch of the civil service We are areno areno areno no longer medical experts we sit and sign forms We have no time to diagnose our patients' patients diseases but pass them onto on onto onto to other persons and institutions knowing full well vell that they cannot dispense the health benefits which may mayor or may not he be needed So there is the latest example of socialized medicine overworked doctors soaring costs poorer treatment and bureaucracy bureaucracy bureaucracy bur bur- rampant Shall the United States follow v that sorry example There are definite statements that an out all-out effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort will be made to force Congress to take this step along the socialization route I I. I N. N R. R o o I |