Show Doctors Under Bureaucrats According to an AP dispatch from London national health service the worlds world's biggest experiment in socialized medicine is undergoing a strain That strain in the view of Health Minister Bevan results from the fact that too many are demanding too much In other words people are working on the theory that they may as well visit the Ule doctor whether they are arc sick or not because free medical service is coming coining to them This situation has reached so extreme a point that Mr Bevan issued a public statement statement statement state state- ment in which he said Dont let us become a nation of 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 a critical point 1 The governments government's original forecast was that the bill would run to pounds a year But the actual cost according according according ac ac- cording to the British Medical Association will exceed pounds The most important thing of course is just what I 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 are 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 that they cannot dispense the health benefits which may or may not 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 that sorry example There are definite statements that an out all effort effort effort ef ef- fort will be made to force Congress to take this step along the socialization route I I. I N N. R R. I o |