SELF-EMPLOYED PHYSICIANS AND THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT
Under H. R. 2893, physicians, lawyers and others who are self employed and carry on a "trade or business" would come within the provisions of the Social Security Act. As a result of action taken by the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives a new bill (H. R. 6000) has been introduced in the House. The new bill specifically exempts physicians and certain other groups from the proposed broadened coverage of the Social Security Act. This bill has been approved by the Committee by a vote of 22 to 3. H. R. 6000 would not include in a "trade or business" the performance of service "by an individual in the exercise of his profession as a physician, lawyer, dentist, osteopath, veterinarian, chiropracter, or optometrist, or as a Christian Science practitioner, or as an aeronautical, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, metallurgical, or