Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Capacity to Pay. Before they could quarrel with Swing's prescription for the nation's health, his opponents had to make their own diagnosis of the nation's ills. In general they agreed that many U.S. citizens were not getting the best of medical care, but they argued that it was not because of inability to pay for it. The Brookings Institution, in a report-made at the request of a Senate committee in the 80th Congress, concluded that families with incomes of $2,000 or more (at 1941 price levels) should have no difficulty in paying...
...argued, would mean too much governmental regulation and control, which would creep into the relationship between doctor and patient. Furthermore, politics could not be kept out. Worst of all, "the cost of medical care presumably would increase because of a) administrative expenses; b) the tendency of insured persons to make unnecessary and often unreasonable demands upon the medical care services; and c) the tendency of some practitioners and agencies to use the system for their own financial advantage...
...their notebooks, which police found when they broke the Soviet spy ring in Canada in 1946, Soviet espionage agents were accustomed to make a brisk notation in Russian after the names of the traitorous scientists who furnished them information. The notation was NASH (he is ours...
...keeping U.S. tariffs high while preaching free trade to the world; his prejudice against fighting side by side with converts from Marxism, whom Burnham (a convert from Marxism) regards as the most knowing scouts in that fight; his readiness to trade with his Communist enemies any time he can make a fat profit...
...political leadership. He has a mystic faith that in the long pull this leadership will not be wanting. In America's grass roots especially he has recently found the will to win. "The knowledge and intelligence, which enter into the synthesis of politics, are still needed to make ... as fruitful as possible a victory, as sparing as possible of blood and treasure. But the issue is no longer in doubt. Doubt is vanquished by the act of will which makes the decision...