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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
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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.
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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
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'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."
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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. Light, of which there is
plenty out in space, would
provide the energy for mak
ing the algae grow. It would
be a sort of perpetual motion
machine.
The particular type of fish
to be used hatches from the
egg in about ten days and
grows to sardine size in about
three months. They would
then be eaten by the space
passengers. The whole project
would work as a sort of per
petual motion machine.
She tried it and was asked by
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