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Looks at how the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare has gained hospital participation through a Medicare program in an effort to stop health care discrimination against African-Americans as of 1966. Concern over the impact of Medicare on facilities and hospital staff; Factors that contribute to the success of the department's Medicare program; Implications for the health care sector.

The article presents information on the health condition of people in the U.S. No mother would knowingly increase the chances that her child might eventually develop cancer, leukemia, bone disturbances or inability to produce healthy offspring. Yet the sober facts are that thousands of infants and children in the United States are needlessly exposed to more radiation in one year than would be allowed atomic energy workers in a lifetime.

Senator Edward Kennedy introduced a bill, S.34, on January 25, 1971, which provided for a separate National Cancer Authority, distinct from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was to receive $1.2 billion over a three-year period. The purpose of the legislation was to "launch a nationwide program for the conquest of cancer." The pressure to create a separate Cancer Authority outside the NIH comes in part from such sources. The NIH was dividing the diminishing loot among too many claimants.

The article presents discussions of U.S. events as of September 21, 1968. The political situation of the U.S. presidential candidates is discussed. New York politician Charles E. Goodell is discussed. According to the article, many U.S. state and local governments plan to cut their health care budgets.

Comments on the inflationary effects of Medicare and Medicaid programs in the U.S. as of April 1967. Background on the medical-care cost crisis that began in the U.S. in 1966; Increase in the median fee of general practitioners since the launch of Medicare programs; Impact of Medicare programs on the billing scheme of U.S. hospitals.

Focuses on the condition of health services in Great Britain. Plan of the British government to create a National Health Service which will ensure equal opportunities of health for all British citizens; Role of charities in health care in Great Britain; Information on the National Health Insurance program for the working population; Proposal that all citizens should in future have free access to a full range of health care from birth to death; Information on the plan for full health services in Great Britain; Invitation for constructive criticism to the people by the British government.

Focuses on the significance of health issues in political campaign of presidential candidates Harry S. Truman and Robert Taft. Opposition by Taft supporters to the National Health Assembly called by the Truman Administration; Proposal by Truman to eradicate problems related to public health; Provisions in the National Health Insurance Act for workers' medical care; Objection of American Medical Association to federally subsidized health-insurance plan; Support of AMA to Taft's bill on health problems.

Comments on the financial burden imposed by the departure from the standard claim of a sound mind in a sound body in the U.S. Problem in social economics confronting public welfare workers; Failure of the low-level professional earnings of physicians and surgeons to offer a proper return for the education and training necessary to attain professional efficiency; Admission among medical practitioners about the need for reform governing their profession; Problem of the cost of medical care and the proper distribution of the cost.

The article focuses on the national health care program in Canada. It explains the distinction of the country's national health care program in which the government shoulders 50 percent of the cost particularly in poorer provinces. It also mentions the success of the government to settle the differences between the private and public insurance companies in terms of handling the program. An overview of the health care programs in other countries is also provided.

Focuses on various issues surrounding New York State's Medicaid program. Proposal made by Governor Nelson Rockefeller that a million persons be removed from eligibility and also a sharp reduction in benefits; Information on provisions of Medicaid; Ways in which the estimated cost is split; Debate involving eligibility levels; Stress given by Medicaid to preventive care; Benefits of Medicaid for physicians and hospitals; Information on recipients getting dental care.

Presents the author's experience with the Cambridge, Massachusetts office of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to obtain the certificates for Medicare to which he and his wife are entitled by age and by the contributions levied by the Social Security system. Contents of the application of Medicare include questionnaires regarding income; Efforts of the author and his wife to provide certificates that prove their age; Suggestions to make procedural changes which would ease the process to apply for Medicare.

Focuses on the impact of Medicare bill on medical profession and the insurance business in the U.S. Information that the compulsory part of the medical-aid bill gives no help at all to elderly people who are poor; Possibility of refusal by the Federal Government to pay for the anesthesiologist if the elderly people need surgery; Plans of the Federal Government to increase the payroll tax; Intention of the Federal Government to take more than 10 per cent of the average national payroll; Inclusion of doctors in the payroll tax.