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Letter from Harry S. Truman to Ben Turoff   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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President (1945-1953 : Truman). Office of the Personal Secretary. (1945 - 1953)
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Letter from Harry S. Truman to Ben Turoff
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  • Scope and content: This letter is President Harry S. Truman's response to a letter from his friend, Ben Turoff, in which Turoff criticized Truman's proposal for national health insurance. In his reply, Truman denies that his program is "socialized medicine," and asserts that the American Medical Association has misrepresented his efforts to provide government health insurance for middle-income Americans.
Date 12 April 1949
date QS:P571,+1949-04-12T00:00:00Z/11
institution QS:P195,Q518155
Harry S. Truman Library (NLHST), 500 West U.S. Highway 24, Independence, MO, 64050-1798.
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  • Record group: Collection HST-PSF: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (National Archives Identifier: 1205)
  • Series: Personal Files, compiled 1945 - 1953, documenting the period 1800 - 1953 (National Archives Identifier: 602209)
  • NAIL Control Number: NLT-PSF-A-19490412
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Note: The addressee, Ben Turoff, was a retired Ford dealer from Lee's Summit, Missouri who had written Truman supporting the American Medical Association in their opposition to Truman's Fair Deal proposal for a national compulsory health insurance program. Per ‪Strictly Personal and Confidential by Harry S. Truman, p.96

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This letter is President Harry S. Truman's response to a letter from his friend, Ben Turoff, in which Turoff criticized Truman's proposal for national health insurance. In his reply, Truman denies that his program is "socialized medicine," and asserts that the American Medical Association has misrepresented his efforts to provide government health insurance for middle-income Americans. (English)

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