Medical Care for Fishing Boat Owners: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 2262 [and Others] August 13, 1962U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 48 pages Considers similar proposals to amend the Public Health Service Act to entitle owner-operators and employees of commercial fishing boats to free medical care and hospitalization at PHS facilities. |
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AFL-CIO Alaska board a vessel board commercial fishing BOISFEUILLET JONES Budget Bureau Chairman charge at hospitals commercial fishing vessels Committee on Interstate Congress coverage crew CROWTHER D.C. DEAR Department of Health eligibility for free eligible for medical employed on board employed or self-employed engaged on board February 27 Fisheries fishing boats fishing fleet fishing industry fishing operations Fishing Vessel Owners Foreign Commerce free medical halibut Health Service Act Health Service hospitals House of Representatives Interstate and Foreign JULIA BUTLER HANSEN June 18 KIBRE marine hospital service Maritime Committee maritime industry medical and hospital merchant seamen National Fisheries Institute navigation OREN HARRIS owner-fishermen owner-operators of fishing persons engaged preservation provide medical Public Health Service RALPH RIVERS ROBERTS ROGERS of Florida seamen employed seamen's duties section 322 sections 2(h self-employed fishermen self-employed seamen small vessels statement term seamen Thank tion tonnage tax U.S. Coast Guard Washington WEDIN Welfare
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Page 21 - this opportunity to present a statement in support of S.
Page 30 - Persons who own vessels registered, enrolled, or licensed under the maritime laws of the United States, who are engaged in commercial fishing operations, and who accompany such vessels on such fishing operations, and a substantial part of whose services in connection with such fishing operations are comparable to services performed by seamen employed on such vessel or on vessels engaged in similar operations.
Page 5 - Service" means the Public Health Service; (c) The term "Surgeon General" means the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service; (d) The term "seamen" includes any person employed on board in the care, preservation, or navigation...
Page 2 - seamen" includes any person employed on board in the care, preservation, or navigation of any vessel, or in the service, on board, of those engaged in such care, preservation, or navigation...
Page 5 - The Bureau of the Budget advised there would be no objection to the submission of this report from the standpoint of the administration's program. Sincerely yours, EDWARD GUDEMAN, Under Secretary of Commerce.
Page 1 - USC 249) is amended by striking out "and" at the end of paragraph (6), by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (7) and inserting in lieu thereof " ; and", and by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph : "(8...
Page 5 - I have directed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop a plan for providing more readily accessible hospital care for seamen and for improving the physical facilities of those Public Health Service hospitals which are needed to provide such care.
Page 6 - House of Representatives, Washington, DO DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN : This letter is in response to your request of...
Page 40 - ... albacore, king crab, shrimp, and bottom fish such as rockfish, soles, and ling cod. The operators of these vessels live in communities from San Diego, Calif., to Kodiak, Alaska. The vessels range in size from 40 to 100 feet in length and carry crews of from 3 to 10 men each. The vessels are all high seas vessels covering the Pacific Ocean from the waters off Mexico to those in the Bering Sea. Practically all of the vessels are operated by active vessel owners who go to sea with their own vessels...
Page 7 - HR 2262, a bill to amend section 322 of the Public Health Service Act to permit certain owners of fishing boats to receive medical care and hospitalization without charge at hospitals of the Public Health Service.