Resolution from Mrs. Tom Eason to President Harry S. Truman

life Fayetteville, Arkansas April 12, 1949 Eg Honorable President Truman, President of the United States The White House S. ARD The 286-A ARCHIVES RECORDS Washington, D. C. SERVICE s Mr. President: WHEREAS, the American family has received the finest quality of medical care available in any country in the world, developed under our system of free enterprise; and, WHEREAS, compulsory health insurance, wherever tried, hes caused a decline in national health and deterioration of redical standards, and facilities, to the detriment of family welfare; and, WHEREAS, compulsory health insurance, wherever tried, has taken away the family's right to choosing its own family physician; and, WHEREAS, invasion of family privacy and violation of the sanestsy of the patient-physician relationship have proved to be one of the most objectionable festures of compulsory health insurance, wherever tried; and, WHEREAS, compulsory health insurance would result immediately in a tax of 3% on the income of the American working man, rising within a few years to 6% and higher, creating a new tax burden which would reduce household budgets and bring down family standards of living; and, WHEREAS, government control of medical services, by gradually undermining free enterprise and establishing heavy new tax burdens and unprecedented national bankruptcy and encourage the spread of socielism, which would endanger the rights of our children to the individual freedoma which have been the American heritage, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the_Gircle II of the Methodist Church, composed of 45 members, does hereby go on record against any form of compulsory heelth insurance or any system of political medicine designed for national bureaucratic control; That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States, to each Senator and Representative from the State of Arkansas, and that said Senator and Representatives be and are hereby respectfully requested to use every effort at their command to prevent the enactment of such legialation. We are opposed to compulsory health insurance or compulsory hoalth taxation. We are against Senate Bill Number 5, and in the House of Representatives No. 783 and No. 345. We are against House Bill No. 782. We are against House Bill No. 2892 and 2893. Mrs Foru Eason President Mrs. Secretary Ora Hyland X