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7 8/16/49
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President Harry S. Truman
The White House
286-A
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
The 'ollowingnresolution was passed unanimously at the meeting of
the Chester County Medical Society of The Medical Society of the State
of Pennsylvania on July 20, 1949.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Under a system of free enterprise the American medical profession
has established the world's highest standard of medical care,
thereby helping the United States to become the healthiest major
nation in the world; and
WHEREAS, The benefits of American medicine are now available to the
majority of the people of this country and can be extended to
every American through budget-basis, voluntary health insurance;
and
WHEREAS, The experience of all countries where government has assumed
control of medical services has shown that there has been a gradual
erosion of free enterprise and a progressive deterioration of
medical standards and medical care to the detriment of the health
of the people; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the Chester County Medical Society does hereby go on record
against any form of compulsory health insurance or any system
of political medicine designed for bureaucratic control; and
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be it further
RESOLVED, That the Chester County Medical Society endorses and urges the
rapid expansion of Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Medical Service
Association of Pennsylvania) plans in ennsylvania; and that a
copy of this resolution be forwarded to the President of the
United States, to our Senators and Representatives now in the
Congress of the United States, and that said Senators and
Representatives be and are hereby respectfully requested to
use every effort at their command to prevent the enactment of
legislation advocating compulsory health insurance or any system
of political medicine designed for bureaucratic control.
Rogers Alfred L. Chicote, Districts M. President m.D.
D.,
Francis Tacobs M.D.
Francis Jacobs, M.D., Secretary
TRUMAN
West Chester, Pennsylvania
NATIONAL
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