RT Journal
T1 THe medical support for compulsory sickness insurance
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD January 1
VO 139
IS 1
SP 36
OP 37
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900180038011
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900180038011
AB In the editorial published in The Journal last week on the assessment and public opinion, attention was called to the fact that the medical profession as a whole gives but little support to Mr. Oscar R. Ewing's propaganda in behalf of compulsory sickness insurance. The same pressure groups that have been apparent in the past are again visible on the public horizon. Chief among them, because of its financial support, is the so-called Committee for the Nation's Health, Inc., headed by Dr. Channing Frothingham, motivated and controlled by Mr. Michael M. Davis, Ph.D., who likes to be called "doctor," and largely supported through Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lasker and some of their friends. When the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association unanimously voted the $25 assessment to promote voluntary health insurance and to educate the American people regarding the ideals of American medicine and the dangers of