Letters: Jul. 14, 1961

Take as Prescribed

Sir:

Thank you for an objective and most revealing study of the American Medical Association [July 7]. For this closed-shop union to assert that payment of medical bills from a social security check is "socialized medicine" is as nonsensical as to state that payment of the supermarket from a social security check is "socialized groceries."

PAUL W. FERRIS Park Forest, Ill.

Sir:

I do not hear of many contractors set against bigger funds spent on construction, nor of many educators damning bigger aid to education, yet I see many doctors fiercely fighting the expansion of medical services in this country. We can easily...

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