Dr. John R. Hogness, president of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, will address 100 prominent Vermonters regarding important changes coming in the delivery of health services. The program will be produced in cooperation with the Regional Health Program in Vermont, the Department of Community Medicine of UVM, and the Vermont Health Department. The subject of the program will be the delivery of health care. The problem of providing health care to all of the people in the United States is a pressing one that will require some hard political decisions in the future. At the present time, many people do not receive service which is adequate either in quantity or quality; and the costs of service are inequitably distributed. The result is a tremendous amount of physical pain, mental anguish, and needless deaths, and economic inefficiency and social wastes. The United States Government has the economic resources to help solve this problem, but the question is how far should the Government go to provide socialized medicine?
