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Show Medic Gives Views On Health Bill The controversy between socialized so-cialized medicine and private medicine has become explosive again in Congress as committee, hearings get underway on the Wagner - Murray compulsory health insurance bill before the Senate Committee of Education and Labor. Dr. Lowell S. Coin of Los Angeles, An-geles, past president of the California Cali-fornia Medical Association, has expressed his views in advance of his appearance before the committee :He points out that, "In every nation where compulsory compul-sory health insurance has been adopted, since it was first conceived con-ceived in lock-step loving Germany Ger-many . . , politics has played havoc with the progress of medicine: medi-cine: "Every person who values his health, . . should . . , oppose this step toward bureaucratic regimentation regi-mentation . . . and substitution of the state doctor for his family physician. "No matter what safeguards may be written into compulsory health insurance legislation, when government collects the money, and pays the bills, doctors, doc-tors, for all practical purposes, become government employees and the private practice of medicine med-icine will end." |