Resolution from the Indianapolis Mercator Club

CECIL G. BEVIS, Presideni HAROLD W. BOGAN, Vice-President PAUL I. ERNST, Treasurer Can I N DIANAPOIS X M ERCATOR GLUB MERCA Tom CARNEGIE, Secretary CLOSER Radio Station WIRE, Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana MEETING EVERY TUESDAY - 12:15 O'CLOCK - LINCOLN HOTEL Directors: KENNETH S. BOGART WILLIAM J. GROSSMAN R E S 0 L U T I 0 N 286-A WHEREAS, the private practice of medicine and clinical research have brought to the people of the United States the best over-all health conditions which the world has ever known; AND WHEREAS, the incidence and mortality of disease have shown a steady year- by-year decrease through such private medical care and research, as evinced by the fact that the life expectancy of the people of the United States has increased nearly 17 years since the turn of the century; AND WHEREAS, Federal intervention into the private practice of medicine would surely result in a deterioration in the quality of medical care and would disturb the time-honored private relationship between physician and patient; AND WHEREAS, compulsory deduction from the payroll checks of employed persons of this country would add to an already burdensome tax loan and ultimately would resolve itself into a multi-billion dollars annual cost; AND WHEREAS, millions of Veterans who fought to keep this Democratic nation as it was when they left their homes for World War II would be required to suffer payroll deductions for medical service to which they are now already entitled free of charge and thus pay for medical care to which a grateful nation has said they are entitled gratus, AND WHEREAS, efforts to saddle this nation with a compulsory health insurance tax are seen as the forerunner of excursions into other fields of private endeavor and would give aid and comfort to Eurasion ideologies foreign and repugnant to the free people of this country, NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Indianapolis Mercator Club, Indianapolis, Indiana does hereby go on record as being unalterably opposed to any plan calling for compulsory health insurance or any other proposed measure having a similar purpose which has been introduced or will be introduced into the Congress of the United States, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States, the Senators, and the Congressmen from the State of Indiana. Cecil G. Kevis Cecil G. Bevis, President 10m Tom Carnegie, Camage Secretary Dated this 16 Day of December 1949 fifty