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"What should be the future role of the Federal Government in the production of scientific, engineering, and other professional manpower; should that role be expanded, reduced, or continued without change? Can, will, and should the States, localities, corporations and other private agencies, and individuals finance education adequate for the nation's needs without further aid, or with only the same amount or lesser aid from the Federal Government; and if so can and will they , do the job in time?" These are questions currently facing the Senate Committee on Government Operation. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell says that of the 10,000,000 additional workers who will be in the labor force in 1965 most will be women and older workers, with the remainder being young boys between 14 and 24. There will be no increase in the number of men in the prime working ages between 25 and 44, he says. Mrs. Alice K. Leopold, Assistant to the Secretary of Labor, points out that without womanpower we can never hope to survive in the manpower race. Mental health, so much affected by the emotional impacts of space travel, satellites, and. cold wars, has been aided tremendously by the tranquilizers, but deeper thinkers are wondering to what extent our personal and national attitudes and moral concepts are being altered by these drugs. The industrial segment of Pharmacy is hopeful that the Federal Trade Commission with vision and understanding will render its report on its antibiotic investigation in the broad framework of Pharmacy's contributions to national health and welfare, and that the FTC will not overlook the large and still rapidly-increasing sums of money being plowed back into pharmaceutical research ($127,000,000 in 1957); or the great financial risks involved in developing, producing, and marketing mO,d e rn drugs; 0 r the rela t i vely small numbe r 0 f successful research projects resulting in upeful drugs; or ,the greatly lowered costs of restoring health to the . diseased because Pharmacy has made rapid cures available at low cost through mass production techniques. Socialized medicine, so repugnant to both organized Medicine and Pharmacy, because it is destructive of individual initiative and freedom and because "bargain basement" medicine financed by heavy taxation would be detrimental to public health, will become much more of a reality unless the Forand Bill (H.R. 9467) and all similar legislation is crushed decisively and promptly. The American Medical Association feels that "The enactment of this legislation will permit the Federal Government to withdraw Social Security taxes on a compulsory basis from almost the entire working population and use those taxes to reimburse hospitals and physicians for services rendered to all persons eligible to receive old age and survivors benefits. . . . (This) Social Security proposal is nothing more than the old national compulsory health insurance scheme in new dress. " VOL. 19, NO.1, JANUARY, 1958/ PRACTICAL PHARMACY EDITION
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"What should be the future role of the Federal Government in the production of scientific, engineering, and other professional manpower; should that role be expanded, reduced, or continued without change? Can, will, and should the States, localities, corporations and other private agencies, and individuals finance education adequate for the nation's needs without further aid, or with only the same amount or lesser aid from the Federal Government; and if so can and will they , do the job in time?" These are questions currently facing the Senate Committee on Government Operation. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell says that of the 10,000,000 additional workers who will be in the labor force in 1965 most will be women and older workers, with the remainder being young boys between 14 and 24. There will be no increase in the number of men in the prime working ages between 25 and 44, he says. Mrs. Alice K. Leopold, Assistant to the Secretary of Labor, points out that without womanpower we can never hope to survive in the manpower race. Mental health, so much affected by the emotional impacts of space travel, satellites, and. cold wars, has been aided tremendously by the tranquilizers, but deeper thinkers are wondering to what extent our personal and national attitudes and moral concepts are being altered by these drugs. The industrial segment of Pharmacy is hopeful that the Federal Trade Commission with vision and understanding will render its report on its antibiotic investigation in the broad framework of Pharmacy's contributions to national health and welfare, and that the FTC will not overlook the large and still rapidly-increasing sums of money being plowed back into pharmaceutical research ($127,000,000 in 1957); or the great financial risks involved in developing, producing, and marketing mO,d e rn drugs; 0 r the rela t i vely small numbe r 0 f successful research projects resulting in upeful drugs; or ,the greatly lowered costs of restoring health to the . diseased because Pharmacy has made rapid cures available at low cost through mass production techniques. Socialized medicine, so repugnant to both organized Medicine and Pharmacy, because it is destructive of individual initiative and freedom and because "bargain basement" medicine financed by heavy taxation would be detrimental to public health, will become much more of a reality unless the Forand Bill (H.R. 9467) and all similar legislation is crushed decisively and promptly. The American Medical Association feels that "The enactment of this legislation will permit the Federal Government to withdraw Social Security taxes on a compulsory basis from almost the entire working population and use those taxes to reimburse hospitals and physicians for services rendered to all persons eligible to receive old age and survivors benefits. . . . (This) Social Security proposal is nothing more than the old national compulsory health insurance scheme in new dress. " VOL. 19, NO.1, JANUARY, 1958/ PRACTICAL PHARMACY EDITION
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