When the National Health Assembly (called by the Federal Security Administration) met in Washington last week, everybody expected a scrap. The American Medical Association, champion of medicine-as-it-is, was in one corner. In the other: spokesmen for farm groups, labor unions, consumers' associations and minority medical groups, all of which believe that U.S. medical care is too expensive and fails to reach the people who need it most.
To the surprise of some, who underestimated the ability of the A.M.A. to retreat gracefully, there was a sizable area of agreement. All factions, including the...
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