Compulsion, the key to collectivism

Compulsion, the key to collectivism

National Physicians' Committee for the Extension of Medical Service

Pamphlets

Health insurance

Compulsory health insurance

Medical economics

Following U.S. Senate Committee on Education and Labor hearings on a proposed National Health Bill in 1946, the National Physicians Committee produced this pamphlet to warn against the danger of compulsory health care as a threat to the American way of life. Dr. Edward H. Cary, the chairman of the Committee, closed his statement by saying, "I believe that if this legislation was submitted to the people in a referendum, with full knowledge of its implications, the voters of this country would finally and forever reject the meddling and the presumption of the bureaucrat to interfere in the sacred relationship of patient and physician, and would register against this kind of revolutionary legislation the everlasting scorn of a free-born an freedom-loving people."

In 2008, Dr. Rashi Fein, emeritus professor in Harvard's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, donated over 150 pamphlets and reports concerning health insurance and health economics from the past fifty years, laying a cornerstone for the library's future collecting efforts in this area.

Cover of the National Physicians' Committee for the Extension of Medical Service's pamphlet Compulsion, the key to collectivism : a treatise on and evidence of attempts to foist on the American people compulsory health insurance, and explanation of the implications involved

National Physicians' Committee for the Extension of Medical Service

the Committee

1946

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Harvard Medical Library Rare Books Collection (HD7102.U4 N27 1946)

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1 pamphlet cover

English

DigID0002820

Gift of Dr. Rashi Fein to the Harvard Medical Library, 2008