...he departs A. W. O. L. to establish a community clinic in a little up-State village where his father, a physician of the horse-and-buggy school, is dangerously overworked. Naturally the local housewives didn't like disclosing intimacies to such an upstart, and the young doctor meets all kinds of opposition — no mention, of course, is made of the American Medical Association—until he correctly diagnoses the mysterious ailment of one of the town elders. Movie Review, New York Times, Dr. Kildare Goes Home, September 19, 1940.
And the solution to all of the opposition? Dr. Kildare, in the movie, starts the clinic with the idea that everyone in the town of approximately 1,000 people pays the clinic 10¢ a week to support and keep the clinic open to ALL, not just those who can afford healthcare. Oh, and he also has a very radical idea to keep the costs down - preventive medecine.
It seems that the issue of universal healthcare has been around for a long time. Fighting the same battles, meeting identical roadblocks [notice the sly mention of the AMA in the review], and jumping similar hurdles.
Let's see... 1940 to 2007........ hmmmm, that's 67 years, and where are we now?
Sounds like an indistinguishable battle to me. Mr. Bush wouldn't even sign the S-CHIP bill to support our kids. The first link on the government's website for the program is Low Cost Health Insurance for Families & Children. Read low cost as the real reason the Tsar and his compatriots will not support it.
Where's the money in it for them?
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." - the more things change, the more they stay the same...
do we need a Dr. Kildare and a mysterious ailment of epic proportions to force the change to happen?
just asking...
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