...veterans will testify to the excellence of the care and treatment they have received from these services. Under the proposed plan for a United Medical Administration...Government employees and merchant seamen in seeking hospital ization and medical care. I thank you again, Mr. Chairman, and reiterate my plea that this...

...your letter of September 22, 1949, where you say : The proposal would have the effect of curtailing the use by veterans of the Nation's hospital plant established for them and impeding the efficient handling of claims for compensation, pension, and insurance benefits where...

...medical care, and medical research and public health, and the transfer of Federal hospitals to a new UMA would "limit the use by veterans of the Nation's hospital...facilities available to additional groups, principally armed services personnel and their dependents, and merchant seamen. It would also impede the efficient...

...personnel and their dependents and merchant seamen. The proposal would have the effect of curtailing the use by veterans of the Nation's hospital plant established for them and impeding the efficient handling of claims for compensation, pension, and insurance benefits where...

...proposal. The reasons for VA's opposition are highly significant. Then Administrator Carl Gray said : This proposal would limit the use by veterans of the Nation's...facilities available to additional groups, principally Armed Forces personnel and their dependents and merchant seamen. It would also impede the efficient...

...consolidated, the then-Administrator, Carl Gray, resisted very vigorously that proposal. Mr. Gray said : This proposal would limit the use by veterans of the Nation's...facilities available to additional groups, principally Armed Forces personnel and their dependents and merchant seamen. It would also impede the efficient...

...consolidated, the then-Administrator, Carl Gray, resisted very vigorously that proposal. Mr. Gray said : This proposal would limit the use by veterans of the Nation's...facilities available to additional groups, principally Armed Forces personnel and their dependents and merchant seamen. It would also impede the efficient...

...proposal. The reasons for VA's opposition are highly significant. Then Administrator Carl Gray said : "This proposal would limit the use by veterans of the Nation's...facilities available to additional groups, principally Armed Forces personnel and their dependents and merchant seamen. It would also impede the efficient...

...successfully opposed the concept of a United Medical Administration, arguing that such an arrangement would "limit the use by veterans of the nation's hospital...these facilities available to additional groups." would "impede the efficient handling of claims," and would be "in basic conflict with the traditional...

...successfully opposed the concept of a United Medical Administration, arguing that such an arrangement would "limit the use by veterans of the nation's hospital...these facilities available to additional groups," would "impede the efficient handling of claims," and would be "in basic conflict with the traditional...