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To the Editor: —InThe Journal, Jan. 24, 1920, p. 271, Dr. E. M Stanton opposed the principles of compulsory health insurance on the grounds that the burdens of such insurance cannot be borne by the insured. In so doing, in my opinion, he made a very good argument in favor of compulsory health insurance. It is precisely because modern scientific medicine, as practiced today, is too expensive for any except the very rich that some system must be evolved to diminish the expense to the individual. If Dr. Stanton seriously believes that the wage earner in general receives adequate medical attention under the present system he is, naturally, opposed to any form of health insurance. A few physicians who emphasize the fact that prolonged illness in persons of limited income almost universally leads to the support of the individual either by the state or by charitable institutions believe that
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