Medicine: A Look Ahead

Two-thirds of all U.S. citizens are covered by some kind of hospital or health insurance, but nearly all have to wait until they are actually ill before they can benefit. They cannot use their insurance plans for diagnosis,* so they rarely go to a doctor at the first twinge, when tracking down the trouble would do the most good. Instead, they suffer this and many later twinges rather than pay for laboratory tests.

Last week Casmir Andrews, 40, walked briskly from a red jeep station wagon into a modernistic new building in downtown Toledo: the Diagnostic Clinic of the Willys Unit. Local...

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