Health Insurance for Children and Pregnant Women: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, March 20, 1990U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 102 pages |
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access to health ACOG amended American babies benefits California Chairman STARK child health Children and Mothers children and pregnant children's hospitals Committee CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY copayment cost coverage covered COYE delivery elderly employer families Federal financing Gradison HARVEY health care needs health insurance Health Policy hearing high-risk immunized important income increase individual infant mortality rate inpatient INSURANCE FOR CHILDREN J.J. PICKLE Jersey LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS low birth low birthweight March of Dimes Medicaid Medicaid expansion Medicare million children MOODY NACHRI neonatal newborn obstetric obstetricians paragraph payment payroll tax percent PETE STARK physicians poor pregnant women prenatal prenatal care preventive private insurance problem proposal Public Health reimbursement requirements risk Senator CHILES social statement SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH subsection Thank tion title XVIII TUCKSON uninsured children universal perinatal woman women and children
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Page 95 - s members are teaching hospitals and involved In conducting research. Most are also regional medical centers receiving referrals from larger geographic regions in the US and from around the world.
Page 2 - April 6, 1989, beginning at 10:00 am, in the main Committee hearing room, 1100 Longworth House Office Building. In announcing the hearing Chairman Stark...
Page 75 - Each of these children represents either a potential addition to the productive capacity and the enlightened citizenship of the Nation, or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of the community.
Page 78 - It is really very simple: all pregnant women need good prenatal care beginning early in pregnancy; they need adequate nutrition; and they need readily available services to plan their pregnancies and to treat any complications that may arise. The relationship between prenatal care and the prevention of infant mortality was well documented in the 1985 report of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Preventing Low Birthweight. The IOM found "the overwhelming weight of evidence is that prenatal care reduces...
Page 18 - FEDERAL HOSPITAL INSURANCE TRUST FUND "SEC. 1817. (a) There is hereby created on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the 'Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund' (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'Trust Fund').
Page 95 - Robert H. Sweeney President National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions...
Page 2 - However, any individual or organization not scheduled for an oral appearance may submit a written statement for consideration by the Subcommittee and for inclusion in the printed record of the hearing. BACKGROUND...
Page 31 - ... are serious imbalances in the location of medical facilities and medical practitioners, and this imbalance has a serious impact on the availability of care. Health care costs have escalated at many times the rate of the Consumer Price Index generally, to the point where the United States spends more of its Gross National Product on health care than any other industrialized nation. We also have the dubious distinction of being the only industrialized country -- other than South Africa - without...
Page 56 - Board, founded the School of Hygiene and Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University with Welch as its first director.
Page 73 - Lack of preventive care can lead to dire consequences . Studies show that uninsured children are approximately 20 percent more likely to be reported in poor health and are less likely to be immunized than those with insurance. One in three poor children is not immunized at age two against rubella, measles and mumps.