Health insurance plans were in the news again:
¶ The famed Permanente hospitals, which, at the shipbuilding peak, had over 75,000 Henry Kaiser workers as subscribers, have now begun to let the general public join up at the low war-worker rate (60¢ a person a week). More than half of the present 40,000 subscribers are now non-shipbuilders. The hospitals' 80 doctors, who have a good record for operations, are convinced that their best work has been in keeping people from getting very sick. A patient gets care when he begins to need it, rather than when he can no longer put it...
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