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. . . People who are very poor can qualify for assistance
from tax-supported agencies. People very wealthy don’t
need assistance in the first place. But most of us fall in
between these two categories, and there simply isn’t an
agency prepared to step in and assist when assistance is
most needed.
Most of us can handle ordinary medical bills. Most of
us can even tackle a major sickness if we're called on to
do so. But few middle class people are prepared to handle
the bills which would be their's should polio, cancer, tuber
culosis, or any number of other major diseases hit their
family.
It is this group which the Better Health Foundation
proposes to help.
The Foundation won't be set up as an agency to pay
everyone’s medical bill simply for the asking. It will en
deavor to rally all ol tlic community's resources toward a
goal of health security for all . . .
. . . That in a nutshell is its purpose. We believe it to be
a noble one, and wish the Foundation success in its opera
tions.
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In an experiment which will b«
watched by the eiitire nation, the
Durham United Fund is undertak
ing something never before done
by a community fund organiza
tion. Through its Durham United
Fund Better Health Foundation, it
will allot funds for research, edu
cation and direct assistance.
The direct assistance, on a case
work basis, will be extended "per
sons wit'ii heart, cancer, tubercu
losis. polio, diseases which cripple
children and adults, and other dis
eases. to meet special and unusual
expenses when their own and com
munity resources are exhausted.”
. . In other words, the Health
Foundation hopes it will be able to
reach that often distressed stratum
oetwee.T tne impoverisheJ. who are
always eligible for relief and the
suffieisntly wealthy, who can ab
sorb t;:o costs
The* L-lealth Foundation recog
nizes tl'.at questmens are pos^.
some delicate, some difficult.. .
but It leels tiial there are many
people who are hard hit by ckead
diseases and who are neither eli
gible for existing," assistance re
sources nor financially strong
enough to weather the storm with
out hardship The United Fund
hopt's the new movement will help
to close the gap . .
This advertisement, in tb« intarwt g( Iht
Vnited Fund, contributed by ...
Owfaam Bank 4 Tnmt Co.