Government Interference in Medicine

Abstract

I am very glad to have this opportunity to speak to a group of this size and representation throughout the country on the subject of “socialized medicine.” I wish I could get into every little hamlet and speak to groups of doctors, business men, and citizens who are not professional or business men. I have just returned from a 15,000-mile trip on which I have spoken before forty different audiences in fourteen states. I wish I had time to continue that sort of thing. I feel it is very necessary. The medical profession, business men, and other groups have no idea how close this thing is upon them. The time is later than you think. Remember this: We are approaching a presidential election year and for the first time in the history of the United States a President has said, “I wish to have medicine socialized.” He doesn't put it in those words; he has been told that what is in view is not socialized medicine, but it is. I prefer to use the word “nationalized” because then there can be no mistake about what i...