Petition from Jefferson County Medical Society to President Harry S. Truman

the of - x Jefferson COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY Sub ject: Oppose Compulsory Health Insurance WHEREAS, under a system of free enterprise, the Amer ican medical profession has established the world's highest standard of scientific performance, treatment, and research, thereby helping the United States to become 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, the experience of all countries where government has assumed control of medical services has shown that there has been a gradua] erosion of free enterprise and a progressive deterioration of medical standards and medical care to the detri- ment of the health of the people, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the Tefferson County Medical Society of Oklahoma 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 the U.S. Senators from Oklahoma, and to the Congressional Representative from this district of Oklahoma, and that said Senators and Representative be and are hereby respectfully requested to use every effort at their command to prevent the enactment of such legislation. NATIONAL TRUMAN Rosier ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE S COVERNMENT Hawed Rresident a Rosses, mD. Secretary Waunka Okln. Address Dated this 14 thDay of May , 1949