National health program : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, first session, on S. 545, a bill to coordinate the health functions of the Federal Government in a single agency; to amend the Public Health Service Act for the following purposes: to expand the activities of the Public Health Service; to promote and encourage medical and dental research in the National Institute of Health and through grants-in-aid to the states; to construct in the National Institute of Health a Dental Research Institute; and for other purposes; and S. 1320, a bill to provide a national health insurance and public health program. May 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, June 4, 5, and 6, 1947.

Part 1: Considers legislation to consolidate and coordinate Federal health programs in a National Health Agency, and to establish the National Institute of Dental Research. Also considers legislation to establish a national health insurance program.