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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 18. 1962
Long Term Medicare Fight Seen
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The record suggests that the physicians' rebellion against tax-paid health care will be with us for a long time. The record suggests also that enactment of any such health care program would prolong the rebellion.
This record is being made in the United Kingdom. After World War II the British Labor Party, which advocates Marxian socialism, established in the United Kingdom a National Health Service (NHS). This is a so-called cradle-to-grave health service tax paid by the British treasury.
THE MAINSPRING of U.S. physicians' opposition to the Kennedy administration's Medicare program is fear that it would lead to an all-inclusive health service in this country similar to that in the United Kingdom. The UK health service
is, in fact, socialized medicine. NHS is popular with British voters. They would drive from office any politician who sought to repeal it.
Young British physicians are rejecting NHS, however, in a substantial manner. They are leaving the United Kingdom to practice elsewhere. More than 1600 of them have come to the United States in the past 20 years. They are coming now at an annual average rate of about 140. They emigrate in substantially larger numbers to Canada
The British Medical Journal for March 17 contains two analyses of this migration. Dr. John Seale provided detailed figures of the emigration of British physicians throughout the world.
"The DATA INDICATE," he reports, "a mass migration of young British doctors in the last 15 years away from their native land and or
a scale hitherto unknown. A possible explanation of the phenomenon is that practice in the National Health Service is relatively unattractive to young doctors economically, professionally and idealistically."
SEALE FOUND, also, that there had been a great incoming of physicians from other countries to the United Kingdom, notably from India and Pakistan. The number of medical students in training in the United Kingdom, meantime, has been decreasing, leading Dr. Seale to conclude that the younger generation of the British medical profession has been severely depleted.
"Observations made in hospitals throughout England confirm this conclusion, because most have few British doctors working in them under the age of 40, and many have none," he added.
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