Resoltuion from the Taos county Medical Society

for 7 11/12/49 job 256-11 Ea RESOLUTION WHEREAS, under a system of free enterprise, the American Medical profession has been able to achieve the world's highest standard of medical care and assist in making the United States the healthiest major nation in the world; and WHEREAS, the benefits of American medicine are available to the people of this country through budget-basis voluntary health insurance, the best health insurance which exists in the world; and WHEREAS, in the countries where government has assumed control of medical services, there has resulted a deterioration of medical standards and medical care; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the/Taos County Medical Society does hereby go on record against any form of compulsory health 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 New Mexico, and that said Senators and Representatives be and are hereby respectfully requested to use every effort at their command to prevent the enactment of such legislation. annon ml A. M. Rosen, M.D.; President Ruth L.nicotion Ruth L. Nicholson, M.D.; Sec'y. Taos, new mexico Taos, New Mexico Dated this 11th day of Oct., 1949. BE S. TRUMAD JUNE RECORDAND s SERVICE GOVERNMENT