Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1949 — Page 8

Most Britons certainly are getting more medical care

than they had before the plan became effective last summer,

and many will tell you the

program is ome of the best things| Fngland ever has done. But oth-| ors are critical of the “quality”]

‘of medical attention given and drug store and pays nothing! cife the tremendous costs in-/the government picks up the

dical Care Gra

Many Critical of Quelity of Treatment, High Cost of Plan to Government By WILLIAM H. NEWTON «= LONDON, Apr. 9—Niné months after the start of | | * Britain's new national health system you can get almost EE a es vot van at Foori] to be interviewed—and that goes for both patients and

This in ihe frat of bwo articles 4 on a health service. | They are timely because of | Presiflent Trurhan's sweeping | proposals for mass medicine in |

This building, once a residence, became the home of Tarking"Yon Park Recreation Center, 40th and Hlinois Sts; sterday, when it | was officially opened. The project was s Ty

ern arms, and the period of training given men ‘in the National Guard and various reserve or-

ganization is too short to enable | [them to use up-to-date squipmient 4

efficiently, Lt. Gen. Raymond 8 McClain said here last night. MeCliin, only general officer a the Army today who rose from an/ enlisted man in the National

Guard, spoke at the annual con-;

vention of- the Indiana Reserve

& | Officers’ Association.

“The National Guard and Class. A “reserves receive 100 hours of! vention of the Indiana Reserve training periods, Gén. McClain

Sared y the North Side |

said. “At the annual encamp-| ‘ments they would receive anlother 85 to 100 hours of training.

{During a three-year enlistment .

‘period they would receive op

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basis of 30 much per Vieit,

volved for the national BOVErn-| check. It he is seriously ill nel

ment.

Most doctors are putting their {own choice to be operated on by

best into every day to help make the plan work. Some testify

readily that people are getting plaved in all post offices

care now who needed it in other days but just didn't have the!

three shillings and sixpence (70! {are swamped. Sometimes urgent

cents) for 8 visit to the doctor's, office. But other doctors grumble about it and foresee something! like national “rain.” The cost of the heaith program is far greater than. anticipated — almost double the $620 first esti-| mated, : . .

» ENGLAND'S _ hospital and clinical facilities have been jammed to the rafters. A nation which has queued up for everything else now quetes up for, “smbdieal cares Probably... many physicians are loaded down with more Patients than they can care

ener you need 8 peychin-| trist, an appendix removal, a

pair of spectacles, dental care, 8

+ few aspirins, A Nw ue 9

expensive drug, John I pro-|

vides it. Nobody anticipated the | 1 pr huge demand for many of the ® health plan should have been pu 'into effect gradually rather than

gervices, This isn’t an insurance pay-as-

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bess than the por or rack Juveniles during the period. while, rar.gemen “jadult decline 5 been 358 per The Marshall Plan countries hope © tjoners. "Final fee schedules have cent, 3 hop

not been #6 but one group is paid.

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against the health scheme, a . government officials say that once, initial demand for free spectacles, Ana Qnisl work. is met, costs will go down, are overworked Aeoaid, | Where the nation's health is con-

cerned principal of Washington, and forSot doesn’t matter, , he vice president of the associa-|

ition, was named to the presidency. |.

{will be sent to a hospital of his

of doctors

ia Specialist.- Lists are dis-|

(available to patients

But all services are subject to available facilities-—and facilities

surgery cases must wait several weeks. Even a-thing as simple as a tonsil operation means a long, | delay, possibly months, Dentists'| offices, swamped with patients sometimes run months behind api | pointments, |" Yet scare stories about poor ‘service allegedly given free patients have made little impression on the average Briton. These 'stories—despite delays—do not square with his personal experi‘ence. General opinion is that a doctor who was a good physician before ‘the Taw ‘was passed tries’ {his best to continue to give good servis. Doctors. generally h ito work harder now to m ii same, fcome asin other 4 ys. | i

DOCTORS | in the critical minor-| AN uy say they fear a “leveling idownward” of standards of medactice. They insist. the

at one time, But Dr. Guy Dajn,| British Medical Association chair-| msn, says the national health asians advantages are fully ized

“A doctor is free from interfer | i “lence with his clinical judgment. ! {free to writ: and speak without! hindrance and free to set up ig ice where he wishes” in sald. Cost is the biggest argum

say also that

TOMORROW: British doctors

look at the national health | He succeeds R. B. Miller,

* Juvestle delinguenayl (A Maridn| gu County has been on the declin for the past four years, Eleanor ‘B, Snodgéast. state director of probation, said day. Altho

State Principals >" Elect Officers

The Indiana Association of Bec. 4 one ondary Bchool Principals elected 4.40 iofficers vesterday during the annual Spring meeting in the Se- | verin Hotel. Harry C. Wampler, high school peng.

yester- {tor of student affairs, Purdue Uni Marion County pre- -.

Optiwiat Club and the Cy. Récraetion

Side

supervisor,

Lite David Neidlinger, 3910 Graceland Ave., "christens’ the Jatkington baseball diamond with (left to right) Frank Snyder, North

ptimist Club; A. J. Thatcher, city recreation director; Louis | Rainier, North Side Optimist Club, and Francis: Moriarity, center

Other officers elected were C. EB, Bash, principal of Warren Cen! tral High School, vice president, and O. M, Van Horn, Beech Grove {principal secretary-treasurer. ~scussi jndary edun, adj on school leg-| &| Wyatt. executive re of tne; indiana State Teachers Associaition; Dr. George E. Davis, direc:|

versity, and Dr. Glen G. Eye, pro-|

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[Miner Admits Burning

'Dismembered Woman

EBENSBURG, Pa., Apr. 9 (UP) (Effingham who said so many -legged miner confessed to contributions were being received police today that he set it was necessary to organize a fire to his two-room shack where collection system. Mayors of Mid-! he had placed the torso of his western cities were being asked to after destroying her! help. arms, and legs in the forge of his. mine blacksmith shop. eman King, 43, at tained that Loda Irwin,

sweetheart

‘hours of training. ‘Need 3000 Hours’ | | “In my estimation,” sain-Gen.| {MeClain, “it requires 3000 hours ‘of training to prepare for basic land operations . . . We cannot | {expect and should not trust such! .missions to troops only 20 per| icent trained. It is too much risk ito- them personally and to the, ination. ! “we must stabilize these units (National Guard and reserve) by giving them pre-trained men,” the| general sald. “This could be done ‘through universdl military train-| ing . , . or through a system of: selective training, It is the mini-| mum needed to vitalize the civil: |lan companents and vitalized they ‘must be to do the job that will Lal on their shoulders in another {emergency.” +. “Phe. eivilian soldier must dedi. ‘cate ‘himself to-his military avocation, Gen. McClain told the

: oa RESSTVE drill pay will only partly compensate him for the time that is necessary to carry him forward in| & healthy program of promotion and added responsibility.

Feeney Collects Effingham Funds

Mayor Feeney said last night the had agreed to act as a clears]

ithe Effingham, ‘Ill, Hospital| residents wished to contribute to Fund. He offered the service, he said. at the request of persons in

Mayor Feeney said * checks] {should be made payable to the)

first Effingham Hospital Fund. 33, Seventy-five persons lost aly died in a fire which destroyed the lives as a result of the hospital shac

{fire last Monday night.

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SCOTTY SAYS:

ugh sents the largest delinquency area lin the state, Wiseonsin,

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WASHINGTON, Apr. 9 (UP)

{that 375,000 Americans will visit said mid-year Europe this year and leave he $1f. tor vach three-hour session examinations for probation of- hind peat fn surgery and checking on fiver appointments will be held sorely-needed U, 8. dollars, the patients at hospitals. Surgeon at 8:30 a. m,, June 2, in the Ap- Economic Co-Operation Adminis-:

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foes for home calls also are on pellate Court Room, State House. tration said today,

. ! | DENTISTS, too. wre paid by| the job rather than by the pa-| tient as are the general practitioners. “he. dentist may do, fairly simple dental work on his own say-s0, but if the job becomes extensive he must get authority from a government dental board.

Naturally there is an immense

volume of paper work connected with this. Financially, though, many dentists are better off than before the health service was es-tablished-—~so much so that earnings ceilings’ have beet threatened. Today, filling in and signing! fering has become a major. part, of every doctor's life. His desk

ia cluttéred with slips of paper

of many colors and size for an eye test, pink ' certifying!

inability to work, buff approving,

a weekly sickness benefit. There| are special - forms for making ‘milk available to families, for prescriptions. and appliances, for| ‘many ot ther purposes, Sometimes a single patient may] need several chits. In this constent shurfling of forms several government bureaus ire involved =the Ministry of Insurance, the

‘ Health. Minister, the Board of - Trade.

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