Medicine: Warning

Dr. Paul R. Hawley, onetime Veterans Administration medical boss and now executive director for Blue Cross-Blue Shield, is dead set against compulsory health insurance. He is also a realist. In Washington last week, speaking to the District Medical Society, he sounded a warning: doctors getting set for an all-out fight against compulsory health insurance had better put their own house in order. Hawley had been talking to people all over the country, he said, and “I’ve come to the conclusion, with a great deal of regret, that the confidence of some of our people has been shaken in the unselfishness and spirit of public service in the medical profession.”