Committee for the Nation's Health records, 1939-1956 (bulk 1946-1955) [microform].

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Committee for the Nation's Health records, 1939-1956 (bulk 1946-1955) [microform].

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Minutes, memoranda, publications, correspondence, draft legislation, and other administrative records relating to the Committee's lobbying efforts on behalf of national health insurance during the Truman administration. Includes copies of many of Truman's speeches on health matters; material on the opposition of the National Physicians' Committee for the Extension of Medical Service and American Medical Association to national health insurance; and material on health legislation introduced by James Murray, Robert F. Wagner, and John Dingell. Most of the material was collected by the Committee for the Nation's Health; some of it derives from Michael M. Davis, in whose papers the records now reside.

12 microfilm reels.

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Falk, I. S. 1899-1984.

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Dingell, John D. (John David), 1894-1955

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Lasker, Mary

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Committee for the Nation's Health

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Davis, Michael Marks, 1879-1971

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Michael Davis was one of the major figures in health care policy in the United States. He served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Committee for the Nation's Health (CNH), incorporated in 1946 and abolished in 1956. Davis received a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1906. In Boston and then in New York, Davis led movements to extend dispensary services to people of moderate means. He later served as director of medical services for the Julius Rosenwald Fund and chaired the foundation-funded Com...

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