To Establish an Independent Health Service; Speech of Hon. John D. Works of California in the Senate of the United States, Monday and Tuesday, April 29 and 30, 1912

John D Works

ISBN 10: 1354401018 / ISBN 13: 9781354401019

Edité par Creative Media Partners, LLC Apr 2016, 2016

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• Titre: To Establish an Independent Health Service; Speech of Hon. John D. Works of California in the Senate of the United States, Monday and Tuesday, April 29 and 30, 1912
• Éditeur: Creative Media Partners, LLC Apr 2016
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1354401018
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781354401019
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 234 L x 156 H x 6 P (en millimètres) 234 millimètres de largeur par 156 millimètres de hauteur par 6 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 290 grammes

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

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President s Cabinet, possessed of the almost autocratic, unlimited, and unrestrained power belonging to such a department. This movement was instigated and maintained by the American Medical A ssociation, one of the most powerful trusts, in its management, in the country. While there were many sincere and honest, but misguided, people inside and outside of the association behind it, the motive power which was pressing it forward was this political branch of the association. I ts officials and agents, with their powerful organization, were simply using its members and others less selfish and unpopular to deceive the public and Congress and conceal the real motives that actuated the effort. This motive and the real object, purely selfish on their part, were studiously and skillfully concealed under the mask of humanitarianism. The League for Medical Freedom, a voluntary organization composed of hundreds of thousands of citizens of all classes in all walks of life, knowing the hypocrisy of the instigators of new legislation on this subject, made common cause against it and have exposed its objects and pointed out the injurious effects of the passage of the proposed bill. One of the chief causes of complaint was that it would create a monopoly in one school of medicine, with one of their number, a Cabinet officer, at its head, to the exclusion of every other school of medicine or other modes of healing. This purpose was disclaimed by the author of the bill, the Senator from Oklahoma M r. OWEN, but the form of the bill, the fact that then and now all surgeons and other medical employees of the Government were and are of that school of medicine, to the exclusion of all others, and the declarations of parties interested in the bill as to their ultimate object and purpose in urging the passage of it showed conclusively that the Senator from Oklahoma was entirely mis
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