Servicemen's wives going to Cleveland doctors for obstetrical care last week would have found the door locked. The federal Emergency Maternal and Infant Care Plan provides such care for servicemen's wives at Government expense. But Cleveland's doctors refused to accept the Government's fee for prenatal care and confinements. The physicians insisted on their $75-&-up prices or referred maternity patients to free clinics. Michigan's State Medical Society rejected the federal plan last week also.
Elsewhere most doctors regard the Government's maternity fee as a temporary war measure or war's welcome windfall.
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