The U.S. would become a member of the U.N.'s World Health Organization, after all. But the lawmakers wanted to make sure that the U.S. would not also catch a bad case of socialized medicine. To many Congressmen the key provision of the bill passed last week is the requirement that the U.S. representative on WHO's executive board must have "spent at least three years in active practice* as a physician or surgeon." The House wanted to make it ten years; that would have barred most of the experts who have spent their lives in the U.S. Public Health Service, in state...
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