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286.A FILED BY MISS CONWAY MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT JUL 3 0 1951 Re Extension of Hospital Benefits to OAS1 Eligibles and Their Dependents. This proposal, which those interested in health insurance have talked about for years and on which Mr. Ewing recently held a press conference, strikes me as the best possible campaign # issue in the health insurance field with which to campaign next year. It is sound. It makes a good bill. It will benefit and attract a most deserving group in the population which other groups will be loath to attack. The funds for it are already available. It can only help and not hurt existing voluntary plans. It can be of real aid to financially strapped hospitals. The AMA will find itself compelled to attack it, yet will be hurt FROMEN and vulnerable whenever it does. is SERVICE RECORDS Properly handled and stage-managed, the introduction of such a bill can prove of great value to the President and to Democratic candidates in every region.