RT Journal
T1 ORganization section
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD January 1
VO 139
IS 1
SP 39
OP 39
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900180041014
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900180041014
AB Washington Letter 
    (From a Special Correspondent)Dec. 27, 1948.Radical Changes Advocated by Hoover Commission Unit 
    The Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government—better known as the Hoover Commission—will make several controversial recommendations to Congress in January if it indorses the views of its "task force" committee that studied the National Military Establichment. These recommendations affect not only the Army, Navy and Air Force medical departments but bear directly on Veterans Administration and U. S. Public Health Service as well. In addition, their adoption would exercise marked influence on nongovernmental medical care and hospitalization, with particular reference to those proposals for a system of "federal health insurance," amendment of the Selective Service Act to legalize drafting of A. S. T. P. and V-12 graduates who saw little or no active service in the military medical corps and unification of federal hospitalization.Following are some of the recommendations