Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 17, 1960, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Texto FRIDAY. JUNE 17. 19M MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. o o 5 Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann MEDICAL CARE FOR THE AGED Almost everyone realizes that a great mass of the old people do not have the sav ings, and cannot depend upon their children, to pay for the doctors, hos pitals, nurs ing homes, and drugs which, be cause they are a g i a g, they need more than do Walter Llopmans younger peo ple. There are a few eccen trics, professing to be conserv atives, who think that in a truly rugged Individualism these ailing old people would do without medical care if they can't pay for it, or would make their children mortgage the future to pay the medi cal bills. But the country is not that ruggedly obtuse to the facts of life, and accord ingly both the Administration and the Democratic opposition are agreed that the need, which is obvious and urgent, must be met by government measures. Thus, the Administration has prepared a program which the Director of the Budget, Mr. Stans, says will cost 1.5 millions by 1964 and 2.5 bil lions by 1970. For Democrats, Sen. McNamara and some nineteen Senators, including Kennedy, Symington, and Humphrey, have introduced a bill that would add medical insurance to the existing old age insurance. After the first year, the cost of this program would be 1.5 billions. Thus the two programs are ap proximately of the same size. BUT between the two pro grams there is a basic issue of principle. On one aide are the President and his advisers. On the other tide are the preponderant mass of the Democrats and also a considerable minority of the Republicans led by Gov. Rockefeller. They differ essentially on how the pro gram shall be financed. Shall it be financed by com pulsory insurance, which means that throughout a per son's working life he and his employer will be taxed to provide an insurance fund for Ms medical needs when he is retired and is no longer earn ing an Income? This is the principle of the McNamara bill in the Senate, as it was of the Forand Bill in the House, and it has the support of the leading Democrats and of Gov. Rockefeller. Or shall the program be financed, as the Administra tion proposes, by charitable doles to the very poor, paid for out of compulsory taxes collected by the national and state governments? FIR reasons which he has never explained, the Presi dent regards compulsory so cial security taxes as unsound, socialistic, and rather un American; on the other hand he regards compulsory taxes to pay for doles based on a Ten miles at the . ii! ; ; kSkJllj I ktSKbI qm to discover the wonders of Cadillac performance means test as somehow more "voluntary," sounder, more worthy of a free society and more American. Under the McNamara Bill medical insurance would be added to the existing old age insurance system. During his working life, each person cov ered by the Social Security system would contribute an additional amount, as would also his employer, to supple ment his retirement income to include medical services. It is true that during the first few years benefits would be received by persons who had not contributed because the system did not exist when they were earning their liv ing. These benefits would be paid for by the younger peo ple. But as the younger peo ple would be buying their own insurance, there is little inequity in this. Nobody will lose anything, although those who are already too old to have been contributors to an insurance plan will benefit. In a few years everyone re ceiving the benefits will have paid his share. WHY does the President feel so strongly opposed to the principle of compul sory insurance for medical care to supplement the insur ance, which already exists, for old age? What is wrong about its being compulsory that a man should insure him self against the neeis of his old age? What is so wonder ful about a voluntary system under which a man who doesn't save for his old age has to have his doctors and his hospital bills paid for by his children or public, wel fare funds? There is nothing un-American in the principle that the imprudent shall be compelled to save so that they do not become a burden to their families and the local charities, so that they can meet the needs of their old age with the self-respect which comes from being en titled to the benefits because they have paid the cost out of their own earnings. THE President has been led to think, he says, that com pulsory insurance is "a very definite step in socialized medicine." Why? In a system of compulsory insurance the Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare, which would administer the pro gram, could and should use as its agents private organza tions like the National Blue Cross Association In negotiat ing with hospitals and nursing homes and in dealing with claims and complaints. The system would be financed as insurance. But It would be worked not by a new govern ment agency, but by the kind of private voluntary associa tion which the President otherwise believes in. In this connection it is in teresting to remember that in the. early 1930's when vol untary health insurance plans were inaugurated, our old friend, the American Wedlcal Association, was declaring that they were communism. Thesensation of driving a 1 960 Cadillac for the first time is so delightful that a ten-mile trip, even at moderate speed, will seem to end almost before it begins. But it will suffice! When the trip is over, you'll know that Cadillac is as magnificent in performance as in appearance. VISIT YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED $ADILLAC DEALER SKINNER-BUICK-CADILLAC 143 SOUTH RIVERSIDE MEDFORD, OREGON Rockefeller's Alternatives Have Become Crystal Clear By LYLE C. WILSON Washington -l!PD- The po litical alternatives available to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefel ler have be come crystal clear. He can at tempt a Will kie blitz of the 1960 Republi. can naitonal convention or Rockefelle r can wait until ylt t. Wlllon 1HO. It is reasonable to believe that Rockefeller will wait if, for no other reason, than that he must. Circumstances must be just right for the kind of blitz tactics which won the 1940 Republican presidential nomination for the late Wen dell L. Willkie. Willkie's managers packed the galleries of the 1940 Re publican convention. They ar ranged flood tides of tele phone calls and letters to del egates. It was alleged in anger that some of those communi cations were from bankers who hinted that loans might be called or other sanctions imposed on delegates who balked at Willkie. UnabU To Turn Party leaders were unable to turn the stampeding herd. Their curses in frustrated pro test against their predicament would have enlightened even a sailor. They swore solo and in concert against the back ground of the gallery chant: "We want Willkie!" The weakness of the party leaders in 1940 was that they were divided. There were Taft men, Stassen men, Dewey men and lesser men with lesser candidates. The leaders could have stopped Willkie if they could have agreed among themselves on a single oppon ent. Republican leaders this and socialism and socialized medicine. Today, the Ameri can Medical Association is pointing to these same volun tary insurance plans as the solution of our present needs and the proper alternative to compulsory old age medical care insurance. A MONG the opponents of i medical insurance there seems to be a vague and un comfortable feeling that it is a new-fangled theory, alien to the American way of life and imported, presumably, from Soviet Russia. The Founding Fathers were not subject to such theoretical hobgoblins. In 1798 Congress set up the first medical in surance scheme under the United States Marine Hos pital Service. The scheme was financed by deducting from seamen's wages contributions to pay for their hospital ex penses. If that was "socialized medicine," the generation of the Founding Fathers was blandly unaware of it. Copyright 1960 Mew York Herald Tribune. Inc. wheel are year are agreed. They want to nominate Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon. That seems to be that, so far as Rockefel ler's 1960 chances are con cerned. The governor might organize a Rockefeller blitz but without much assurance tnat it would function. Chance For Nomination Rockefeller's bin chance for the presidential nomination is likely to come in 1964, and a very good chance it may be, maybe in 1968. That will depend, of course, on what happens to Nixon if he is nom In the Day's News By FRANK In Manila. President Eisen- hower says that new weapons make war a complete absurd ity and for that reason there must be no retreat in efforts to negotiate for a peaceful world. He's eternally right, of course. The last best hope of earth is that war will become so fantastically terrible that human beings will have the plain common sense to re nounce it. TN WASHINGTON, a mem- ber of congress comes up with a statement to the effect that newspaper stories about abuse of congressional ex pense accounts have played into the hands of the commu nists, who use them as propa ganda to support the commu nist contention that America is rotten to the core. Hmmmmm. It might be. But how about the expense account scandals themselves? suppose the congressman's idea is that if the nosey news papers hadn't blabbed the story to the public, every thing would be hunky-dory. Which is to say: If you don't get caught and exposed no harm has been done. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF ARADCLIFFE FRESHMAN read that oni could absorb knowledge from a book by putting it under the pHlow and. sleeping on it all night. her roommate In the morning, "Well, did you get anything out of sleep ing on that book?" "I sure did," admitted thafrosh. "A stiff neckl" The biggest howl heard west of Chicago in many months came from a justi fiably enraged Montana housewife who discovered that the "swimming pool" she won In a TV cou'.est was nothing more than a 69-cent fish bowl! She's , . taking the sponsor-owner of a furniture emporium to court and if there' any Justice she Should collect plentyl A farmer collared a veterinarian at the comer store and tried 'to snaggle a bit of free advice. "I've got a funny kind of horse," he explained. "Sometimes he walks normal, other times he has a bad limp. What should I do?" The vet snapped, "The next time he walks normal, sell him." i960, by Burnett Cat. Distributed by Kiss Vesture. Syndicate all you need . . . The gently soft ride, the amazing handling ease and the instant response to your slightest wish all combine to prove that this is indeed a car without an equal. And it's waiting for you at your authorized Cadillac dealer's showroom. Drive it at your first opportunity. inated this year. If Nixon then were elected in November he surely would be renominated in 1964 if he lived. If Rockefeller is to have any chance to be nominated in 1964, Nixon must be defeated in I960. Rockefeller's first term as governor of New York ends Jan. 1, 1963. It must be assumed that he will run in 1962 for reelection. The perfect situation for Rockefeller would be to come up to 1964 as a second term governor in New York with a Democrat in the White House. JENKINS lyORLD of the future note: ' A research team of sci entists working at the Univer sity of Oregon has come up with a finding that it would be possible to raise food fish ABOARD SPACE SHIPS, feeding them on materials produced with the aid of algae from body wastes of the space passengers. The fish would grow in water already being used to grow algae (for oxygen; there's no AIR out in space, you know) and so no great in crease in volume or weight would be involved. The algae also produce a type of pro tein, which would feed the fish. 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