Health Services for the Aged Under the Social Security Insurance System: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4222; a Bill to Provide for Payment for Hospital Services, Skilled Nursing Home Services, and Home Health Services Furnished to Aged Beneficiaries Under the Old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program, and for Other Purposes and on Similar Proposals, Volumes 3-4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 2281 pages |
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Page 1306
... costs money . We know in the cost of the hospital 70 percent of the cost is labor . Across the Nation , the average is from 65 to 75 percent . Who is going to recommend that we lower the cost of medical care by lowering the prices we ...
... costs money . We know in the cost of the hospital 70 percent of the cost is labor . Across the Nation , the average is from 65 to 75 percent . Who is going to recommend that we lower the cost of medical care by lowering the prices we ...
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... cost " of services . Costs will be reasonable for any product , Mr. Chairman , only when the buyer and the seller agree that they are reasonable . If agree- ment cannot be reached , any party to the negotiations is usually at liberty to ...
... cost " of services . Costs will be reasonable for any product , Mr. Chairman , only when the buyer and the seller agree that they are reasonable . If agree- ment cannot be reached , any party to the negotiations is usually at liberty to ...
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... costs " . It is enough to note that one Secretary's standards would not be binding upon his successor , and that the entire process of unilateral cost fixing would be accompanied in the years ahead by concerted outcries of ...
... costs " . It is enough to note that one Secretary's standards would not be binding upon his successor , and that the entire process of unilateral cost fixing would be accompanied in the years ahead by concerted outcries of ...
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... cost for a two , three , or four - bed room is determined to be $ 30 , and that the reasonable cost for a room with more beds is established as $ 20 per bed . The difference between the two accommodations amounts to $ 10 . If the ...
... cost for a two , three , or four - bed room is determined to be $ 30 , and that the reasonable cost for a room with more beds is established as $ 20 per bed . The difference between the two accommodations amounts to $ 10 . If the ...
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... COST ESTIMATES FOR H. R. 4222 Gentlemen , I am a doctor , not a statistician or an actuary-- a fact which causes me some concern in attempting to comment on the es- timated cost of the King bill . And in all candor , I must say that the ...
... COST ESTIMATES FOR H. R. 4222 Gentlemen , I am a doctor , not a statistician or an actuary-- a fact which causes me some concern in attempting to comment on the es- timated cost of the King bill . And in all candor , I must say that the ...
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