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AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION February 5, 1974 Gandhi used to say "It is health which is real wealth II By your efforts and the efforts of doctors and nurses and medical scientists in laboratories and schools throughout this country, we are a very wealthy Nation indeed. But we can do better. The time has come to make it possible for every American to have access financially to the best health care this Nation is capable of producing. Those who can afford it should pay for it. But those who cannot afford it must not have it denied on that account. We don't want a generation of Americans, on the 200th anniversary of this country, to look back and wonder why, in the richest country in the world,