Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government would finance training of doctors and nurses, expand its grants for hospital construction. Patients could choose their own doctors, and doctors could join or not join the program as they saw fit. Doctors could also reject patients. The doctors would be paid by the Government on either a salary or fee basis...
...having to haggle over the sixpence. He had kept his campaign promise by submitting the bill. But, as he well knew, his compulsory insurance proposal -the only real issue in the bill-had little chance of passing in this session of Congress. Most critics thought the President's program was also unrealistic, because it put the cart before the horse. The nation's corps of 190,000 doctors, and the hospitals available to them, would have to be vastly expanded before they could cope with the millions entitled to care under the Truman program...
...Medical Mills." Even before the President's bill was sent to the Hill, three Catholic welfare groups objected to the program as "practically a Government monopoly." The powerful American Medical Association, which was trying to raise $3,500,000 from its members to fight the President's program, raised an excited and angry voice. Said the A.M.A.: "Government-herding of patients and doctors in assembly-line medical mills would lower the standards of healthy America to those of sick, regimented Europe...
...rent housing units within the next six years. Bricker wanted a provision forbidding discrimination or segregation of races in any public housing project. Cried Bricker: "There has been a great deal of shadowboxing in the Congress in the attempt to place responsibility for the failure of the civil rights program. This is the one chance we will likely have to vote on this question during the present session...
...lowly potato was costing the U.S. taxpayer more & more. Last week Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan reported that the Government's wartime potato price-support program, kept alive by the 80th Congress, already had cost $200 million for the 1948 crop and would cost more before the year's output is disposed of. What's more, the Government's mass buying of 1948 potatoes (now at a husky $2.90 to $3.50 per bushel) was keeping prices up in the grocery store, so taxpayers were getting socked twice for every potato they bought...