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April 1, 1948
CANOP
Respectfully referred to the
Federal Security Administrator.
istrator
WILLIAM D. HASSETT
Secretary to the President
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3.
MATIONAL
Letter to the President, 3-23-48
ARCHINES AND
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RECORDS
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From: Dr. Edward A. Miller,
Santa Ana Clinic,
x
800 North Broadway,
Santa Ana, California.
Refers to the National Health Assembly called to meet in Washington,
May 1 to 4. Understands that 19 of the Executive committee have been
previously associated with propaganda in behalf of compulsory sickness
insurance and only one of the 24 members of this 24 member committee
is a physician. Further understands the Government agencies involved
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in this Health Assembly have lined up propaganda groups outside the
Government that are willing to go along with federal plans for the
creation of compulsory health insurance to be brought before the
Assembly. All of this is being done with tax-money and he disapproves
of the activities in this direction. States the implications involved
in such an assembly are so serious for the medical profession that it
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seems to him it should be called into early conference on development
of this program and that material developed by the conference should
be developed with full participation by the medical profession.
In these times of high taxes believes it definitely socialistic to
support such programs as federal compulsory sickness insurance.