Resolution from the Kentland Junior Woman's Club of Indiana

age 286-A En WHEREAS, the American family has received the finest quality of medical care available in any country in the world, developed under our system of free enterprise; and, WHEREAS, Compulsory Health Insurance Awherever tried, has caused a decline in National health and deterioration of medical standards, and facilities, to the detriment of family welfare; and, WHEREAS, Compulsory Health Insurance, wherever tried, has taken away the family's right to choosing its own family physician; and, WHEREAS, invasion of family privacy and violation of the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship have proved to be one of the most objectionable features of Compulsory Health Insurance, wherever tried; and, WHEREAS, Compulsory Health Insurance would result immediately in a tax of 3% on the income of the American working man, rising within a few years to 6% and higher, creating a new tax burden which would reduce household budgets and bring down family standards of living; and, WHEREAS, Government control of medical services, by gradually undermining free enterprise and establishing heavy new tax burdens and unprecedanted National deficits, would threaten National bankruptcy and encourage the spread of socialism, which would endanger the rights of our children to the individual freedoms which have been the American heritage, NOW, THEREFORE, NATIONAL AND I RECORSS SERVICE BE IT RESOLVED, That the Kentland Junior Woman's Club does COVERNIMENT hereby go on record against any form of Compulsory Health Insurance or any system of political medicine designed for National bureaucratic control; That a cory of this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States, to each Senator and Representative from the State of Indiana, and that said Senators and Representatives be and are hereby tespectfully requested to use every effort at their command to prevent the enactment of such legislation. Mrs. W. A. Rachbun President mrs. U.R Schuster Secretary KENTLAND JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB KENTLAND 1 INDIANA Dated this 15th Day of december, 1949.