Newsletter, Committee for the Nation's Health

COMMITTEE FOR THE NATION'S HEALTH KELLOGG BUILDING 1416 F STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. TELEPHONE: EX. 8156 BULLETIN #12 June 30th, 195e This Bulletin describes the political policies of the Ameri can Medical Associ- ation as presented at its Annual Meeting just held and in its lobbying in Washington. D o C T O R S IN The platform at the American Medical Association's Annual Meeting in San Francisco this weck was backed by a huge enlarge- ment of the Fildes paintings showing the family doctor mourning because he cannot save a dying child. "KEEP POLITICS OUT OF THIS PICTURE" was the big-letter caption. Standing in front of this picture, Dr. Elmer L. Henderson in his official address as incoming presi dent of the AMA, pushed American doctors into partisan politics, encouraging the AMA's campaign against "creeping socialism" and attacking the present Administration as - "sick with intellectual dishonesty, with avarice, with moral laxity, and with reck- less excesses, " dominated by "ambitious TRUMAN men. who would make the American people MATIONAL ARCHIVES And walk in lockstep." RECOKDS SERVICE AMA's Million Dollar Advertising Campaign Closoly timed with Dr. Henderson's address was the an- nouncement of the AMA's "Nation-wide advertising campaign" to be launched early next October, to promote voluntary health insurance, and "to alort the Amorican people to the danger of socialized medicine and to the threatening trend toward state socialism in this country." This campaign will cost the AMA $1,110,000. There will be lorge advertisements in 11,000 newspapers and 30 (more) 34