USN&WR, 1960---on Health Care Crisis

I had some retiree free time yesterday, so at the library I randomly wandered into the area with back issues of magazines, and leapt back to 1960, the year when I graduated from high school, by grabbing a book with many U.S. News & World Report issues.

I landed in the May 16, 1960 issue, and guess what was the lead story?

The increasing cost of---HEALTH CARE!

Anyway, I slowly turned each page over from front to back and perused all the ads and stories, even trying to read the hot shot at the time pundit, David Lawrence, on the back pages. What a thrill to see some of the ads for the “new” cars! Also, so many of the other ads were by many industrial companies, manufacturers, that one would think had no reason to buy ads in this magazine.

When I took in the health care piece, it was so depressingly familiar, since ALL the same old problems were sickeningly the same. Imagine, for almost FIFTY years the “problem” has bedeviled us, APPARENTLY!

I’ll close with one ludicrous factoid.

The article compared the costs of similar services in different places, and the hoary one about doctor’s HOUSE CALLS was amazing.

In some cheap states, the doc would come for $3, and the most expensive one was $6!

What? The Federal Reserve is good on inflation?

I think hospital rooms went for ten or so dollars, and you can imagine how mush other services cost.

The bottom line---most of the people “concerned” with this “cost” problem have already DIED. What good did it do them, to be concerned, let alone put ANY energy or thought on this?

The world is to be transcended, since it is never fulfilled!

posted by James at 11:25 AM
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