A proper understanding of the part the physicians of any area must play in a medical care program is so essential that I have prefaced what I have to say on the medical care program by the introduction of a statement by a member—Dr. Louis H. Bauer of Hempstead, N. Y., of the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association: "We are concerned with a problem on which there are sharp differences of opinion. In fact, were there not these differences of opinion there would be no problem." "As to the ultimate aim we are all agreed. I believe no one can quarrel with the platform of the American Medical Association, adopted in June 1944, which calls for 'availability of medical care of a high quality to every person in the United States.' The differences of opinion arise as to how this aim is to be achieved. "As doctors