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The Waynesville Mountaineer 1949 (Second Section) 's And Con's Of The Proposed Health Program rres ,.L,. Ill: t I., Iiv UU,. III."" have IIHIU'"- nnrllv "1 -"'""" liHicali'. ii" 'orities on Give nil adopt I'lCsi- Lltli ln-urancc ( the ntiist nu lla' will Local Students Discuss Socialized Medicine Winners In Contest Get Cash Prizes High school students recently discussed the proposed Socialized vihidi t"L' 1 ' . M(.Hicine program on the radio f.irinn over wncv.. me Muuciiis vear Hut MKIll.V still inatioii are - thf arcumf11'5 opponent" hc" decision. Iadiri; ai')ju- L of I he ques ts of AllUTltd, Lricaii Drmiyist, leading support- its leading up key questions for'' side of token by Oscar Urity Adniinis- direcl the plan The "Against" br. Morns Nsh- Jounial (if the Association. lpir answers lo The American jay be of equal Bollow: briefly, what of National kn-rr: .Minunai is simply a for complete pre-payruenl le system would of physician's line, physician s II should meet leiital, and nurs- nf eye glasses. and the cost Itallh Insurance roll deductions. bent Social Sc- payalilc equally employee. Na- rance would be tat boards simi- Scrvirc Hoards luring the war. local einninuiiily Willi the local basis for toiint Ihey are r services e.g. lent per year, or cs, of so much an olliee visit. Each benefici- pis own doctor, k' free to reject e did not care Page Jl are members of the Tally-Ho Club, and give a weekly forum over the air under the direction of Miss Alma Jackson, faculty advisor. The statements of the students, in part, are given here, as a pre sentation of how students feel on this subject. i Editor's note the expressions presented herein are those of the respective students and not neces sarily the opinions of this newspaper.! By Brent Chapman 1 am opposed to socialized medi cine for the following reasons: I believe the standard of medi cine would definitely be lowered. This has been found to be true in the other nations which have tried socialized medicine. Members of any profession need an incentive of accomplishment. People do not want to all be cast in the same mold. People resent regimentation. Doctors do not feel that govern ment control will improve health. Let us take the teaching profes sion as an example. Thousands of teachers have left the profession. We are badly in need of teachers and we are trying to get them back. I think under socialized medicine the same thing would happen to doctors. We already have a short age and more and more young people are hesitating about enter ing the profession because of the threat of socialized medicine. The doctors and dentists, through ob serving socialized medicine in other countries, firmly believe that the health of the nation would be come a political football. Accord ing to Hon. Frederick C. Smith of Ohio speaking in the House of Representatives on January 13, 1949 quote "The U. S. is the only country which spends an ade quate amount on medical research. jVearly all of the medical progress made in the world in the past 37 years has been in this country. During the same period nothing of importance has come from Soviet Hussia or from any country in the grips of either socialism or com munism." By Malcolm Russell Williamson, Jr. Socialized medicine is the great est threat to democracy in this country. If any part of the president's MORE THAN 000.00 FBtE BROADCAST TIME roB RAMS IN THE PUBLIC NTEREST SINCE PLY 1st., 1948 0ICE OF HAYWOOD f 9 For Everything Worth f'le In This Area. , On Your Dial TlH 7 jn VI A B Actual Tiie Donated At Lowest Advertising Rate program should become law the advanced position that medicine has attained in this country would be swept away overnight. The only solid evidence that can be pro duced on the subject is the effect of the pres.mt program in England. We, therefore, can, by looking at England see what would happen to us if we should adopt this deadly program. In England doctors are so hope lessly overcrowded that no one can receive proper attention. A typical example of the present practice is this: A doctor asks all patients suffering with colds to raise their hands, his nurse then hands out pills and he asks those suffering from another common ail ment to raise their hands, etc. The president's health program calls for a three per cent payroll tax, this on top of the social se curity tax and an ever increasing number of others. A leading representative of I he American Medical Association last Sunday staled that if medical care was to be sufficient the tax would have to be 'M ' . America can not stand taxes like this. Even if we could pay for it we must not have it. It would stymie I he American doctors who have become the best in the world. Socialized Medicine would destroy America's health record built through hard work and enterprise by free American doctors. By Jimmy Whitman Everywhere in our counlry to day socialized medicine is one of the basic discussions for argument. To me. this is a subject which should be acted upon, and not merely talked about. If a satisfac tory plan can be worked out. I am personally for it no matter what petty arguments are put against it. The idea of social insurance for health was introduced into Eur ope, about 00 years ago. Health insurance has proven beneficial in other countries. The Germans have had some form of insurance since 1854, which has been proven since their compara tively good health of all during the war. The British system first established in 1911, covers every person receiving less than $1,250 a year. If it is passed in our country, it is probable that the system will omit cash profits and merely pro vide medical care for the needy Each state would set up its own insurance system, subject to the approval of the Social Security Board. All manual workers would be compelled to join, others earn ing only a certain amount would be insured, agriculture workers would be exempted. Every type of medical care would be immediately available lo the insured. Any physician could join, thus not compelling all. Private systems of these plans have proved it is practical to spread the costs of medical care in this country. These reasons have also proved to me that we should have medical care for all. and not a choice group. The climax of the speakers' coolest sponsored by the North Caro lina Bankers Association came in Haywood when the first ami second place winners got their cash prizes. Miss (Vine Ferguson, of Fines Creek, is shown receiving first place prize trom .1 II. Way . Jr., on the extreme right, while Wade Francis, ol Way nesville. is being awarded lor second place by Jonathan II Woody, ilell' The officials of the First National Hank participated m the stale con test, which featured soil conservation. I'hotu b Ingram's Studio most. These plans offer only partial protection even for those who can afford to enroll. Most voluntary plans eliminate the so-called bad risks and restrict the types of ill ness or disability lor which Ihev Horses For Sale Cheap But City Can't liny i'i TTsm itr.ii 'iTi law department was m The city a dilemma Miss Cenie Ferguson Contest Winner Black Picture Painted On Affects Of Erosion In Prize Winning Speech "Gullied fields remain as skele tons of once prosperous lands. "Ruins and Scalds grow nothing where once grew giant oak trees That is part of the graphic word-picture of erosion's effects Miss Cenie Ferguson of Fines Creek painted Thursday in the District Soil Conservation Speak ing Contest. Her efforts won her third place in the competition in which rep resentatives from seven counties took part. She had won the Hay wood county championship the day before. The 4-H club girl titled her ad dress. "The soil as mother nature built it. as the pioneers found it. and as it is today." After presenting her bleak, earn est picture of the effects of erosion, Miss Ferguson suggested these ways of reducing it. Plant trees on sleep lulls. Devote rolling lands to perman ent pastures. Terrace-crop land. Practice strip i ropping. Plant with the contour Mislead ol in straight rows. Product growing crops, such as grain. Provide meadow strips for hold ing water. Prevent over-grazing in sections of limited rainfall. Use only the best soils for the production of cultivated crops. The key to preventing erosion and holding topsoil, Miss Fergu son declared, can be expressed in the word "cover" the combination of grasses, shrubs, legumes and trees which blanket the earth and bind the topsoil. To get food, natural rover must be broken. But still, she continued, the land can be used in such a way that "erosion is still held at bay ". Crop rotation, she said, is one way to do it, helping as it does to maintain and increase soil pro duction and making for a more prosperous agriculture. Another way is through adding plant food in the form of commer (Continucd on Pace 5i will assume responsibility as welllovtT mm " nn"" lnil' Milse legally as limiting the amount of care!" !'""' "' wolk 1""'M'S ;i1 : '''"" i price. i The tvwi horses belonged lo I he I late Dr. I,. II Mayer, Jr . ol Tim ber Top Farm, near Higomer, Pa. which the member is entitled to receive. Therefore, voluntary health insurance has demonstrated that it cannot possibly do the full job for the 147,000,000 people living in the United States. By Bobby Harry Before we can intelligently dis cuss this question, we should know just what "Socialized Medi cine'' is. Socialized Medicine means that the doctors are salaried em ployees of the government. All medical services are controlled by the government, and medical care is furnished to citizens through the government. Most people think that the Uni ted Slates has the highest quality of medical care and pharmaceutical service in the world. That is not entirely correct. This high quality of medical assistance is available in the United States to those who can afford to pay for it. The trou ble with our present system is that the cost of I his care and service is beyond the reach of fully half of our population. Almost half of the people in the United States live in families where the total family income is less than $3,000 a year and these people simply cannot afford the cost of adequate medical care under the present sys tern. Furthermore the distribution of hospitals and physicians is very uneven throughout the country, with the result that many rural areas and small towns do not have adequate medical care or pharma ceutical facilities. Voluntary health insurance is growing rapidly but is still in an early stage. The rapid growth of various voluntary plans now in operation shows how eagerly the public respond to the idea of in surance against the burden of hos pitalization costs and doctor's bills; however, the high premium rates required under these plans are beyond the reach of the very peo ple who need such protection the By Coretta llcnson What noes I lie term, "socialized i medicine," really mean'.' Congress has been faced with a demand for a national health plan. As Ameri- ! cans we have been deeply con- j cerned. We want to get better J medical care for more Americans, j The Government wishes to operate j this plan by collecting insurances j for health. Out of the insurance i collected the government would pay the bills. Doctors do not want to receive pay from the govern- mcnt because they do not like any j plan which will give a government agency control of part of their al- I fairs. Americans need belter medical care now. Those that have low in comes either cannot afford medical ; care or they must do without it as 1 long as possible. In such a case if a ! health insurance had been collect ed treatments could be provided. Many parls of the country have ! too few doctors, dentists, and hos- pilals. People in less densely popu- j lated- areas have to go lo bigger towns to see a doctor. Again, we see the need of an insurance health plan. ! If we had a national health plan j it would be good for the doctors, j They could see their patients be- ' fore the sicknesses developed to a j critical stage. Kelal ionships be- i tween doctors and patients would be about the same as present. al:-o ! doctors would have a right to re fuse patients. Doctors, probably i would have a choice between pri- 1 vale and public practices. Every-) one needs a doctor sometime or an- other and that is why I Ihirik we I need socialized medicine. His widow refused to sell the hors es separately because they wen1 brothers, although she had been ollered a total of S:S.0llt lor the pair from separate bidders. She offered them to the city for $7011. Hut the law doesn't allow I lie purchase of anything over $fi00 without first accepting bids. Councilman Frederic C Weir asked the legal department to see whether it was all right lo buy one horse one day for $350 and buy the other the next da1' for another $350. Men used w indmills to grind corn a n d pump water in Europe a s early as the 12th cenlurv. as THE OPENING Of The Skyland Cottages TEA ROOM SUNDAY, APRIL 3rd HOURS SUNDAY 12::;il - mill (i - 8 wi;k days ; - x LUNCHEON HY RESERVATION Bqlsam Road Telephone 54-M-2 By Mary Osborne There has been much said pro and con about socialized medicine Recently at a meeting concerning it, Mr. Oscar Kwing. head of the Federal Security Board .was quot ed as having asked this question. Which is more important, the per sonal, selfish business of 180.000 practicing physicians in this coun try or the health and well-being of 68.000.000 of our population.'" I think that he might belter have asked. "Which is more important: the opinions and professional standards of 180.000 doctors who have been trained for the practice and have raised the American med ical care to a level nowhere else achieved, or lo the absurd notions of some millions of people that if medicine became a federal bur eaucracy better medical care would immediately result?" The doctors have many good ob jections to sociajized medicine. In the first place, they would be piti fully over-worked. This would re sult from a shortage of doctors Putting it plainly, 500.000 doctors would be needed where there are now 180.000. Since more people have taken out hospitalization insurance, the price of it has gone down consid erably. The prices will continue to go dow'n as more people buy it. 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