National Health Insurance: Field Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on National Health Insurance and Proposals to Restructure Incentives in the Private Health Care Sector : March 21, 1980, Miami, Fla., April 11, 1980, Honolulu, Hawaii, Volume 3 - Volume 4, Issue 277 |
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... pay for it . What we are trying to work out is some means by which those who can pay will pay what they can ; a system under which our people will neither have to be in the demeaning position of a welfare patient nor have to be rich in ...
... pay for it . What we are trying to work out is some means by which those who can pay will pay what they can ; a system under which our people will neither have to be in the demeaning position of a welfare patient nor have to be rich in ...
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... payment . This is currently being done on a voluntary basis under medicare , but only about 50 percent of the participating physicians accept assignment nationwide . This percentage is much lower in Florida . Provider and consumer ...
... payment . This is currently being done on a voluntary basis under medicare , but only about 50 percent of the participating physicians accept assignment nationwide . This percentage is much lower in Florida . Provider and consumer ...
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... payment rather than billing a patient separately on a fee - for - service basis , particularly in the areas of pathology , radiology , and surgery . I would urge you to give positive support to Congressman Pepper's proposal of medicaid ...
... payment rather than billing a patient separately on a fee - for - service basis , particularly in the areas of pathology , radiology , and surgery . I would urge you to give positive support to Congressman Pepper's proposal of medicaid ...
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... pay the difference . So , we really need to do something about that . I think that the simplest way would be to just eliminate that option and maybe make the copayment a flat amount . The next item that I want to talk about a little bit ...
... pay the difference . So , we really need to do something about that . I think that the simplest way would be to just eliminate that option and maybe make the copayment a flat amount . The next item that I want to talk about a little bit ...
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... pay for care is in a hospital and that the only people that we can pay are fee- for - service physicians . We have to have competition within the medical market between fee - for - service forms of health service , which is what public ...
... pay for care is in a hospital and that the only people that we can pay are fee- for - service physicians . We have to have competition within the medical market between fee - for - service forms of health service , which is what public ...
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