Public Hearings on National Health Insurance: Prepared Statements of Witnesses, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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... claim that deductibles and co - insurance would contain patient utilization and , therefore , costs . is the doctor , not the patient , who controls utilization . After the first contact with the physician , which is initiated by the ...
... claim that deductibles and co - insurance would contain patient utilization and , therefore , costs . is the doctor , not the patient , who controls utilization . After the first contact with the physician , which is initiated by the ...
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... claim submission for every service would be eliminated . To be effective , regulation must control the quantity , the price , and location of treatment . Thus , the implications of " interference with the practice of medicine " are very ...
... claim submission for every service would be eliminated . To be effective , regulation must control the quantity , the price , and location of treatment . Thus , the implications of " interference with the practice of medicine " are very ...
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... private insurance was expensive in terms of the mechanical function of processing claims and , more importantly , incapable of influencing the delivery system to be responsive to the needs of the population . For these reasons , 11.
... private insurance was expensive in terms of the mechanical function of processing claims and , more importantly , incapable of influencing the delivery system to be responsive to the needs of the population . For these reasons , 11.
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... claims in 1973. Thus , Blue Cross is seven times more expensive than Canadian government administration . The average Canadian cost for administration of hospitalization and medical service combined is 4 percent of expenditures for ...
... claims in 1973. Thus , Blue Cross is seven times more expensive than Canadian government administration . The average Canadian cost for administration of hospitalization and medical service combined is 4 percent of expenditures for ...
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... claims processors , eligibility determinators and adjustors . The tax collecting machinery for payroll taxes , which Health Security would use , is already in place . For the other proposals , the administrative cost of collecting ...
... claims processors , eligibility determinators and adjustors . The tax collecting machinery for payroll taxes , which Health Security would use , is already in place . For the other proposals , the administrative cost of collecting ...
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Page 20 - Act under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and shall, with the approval of the Secretary, prescribe such regulations as may be necessary for the administration of this Act.
Page 134 - US Health Care is second rate because we rank lower than 1 3 other industrial countries in Infant Mortality" The usual reference is the USPHS Monograph, Number 1000, Series 3, Number 6, International Comparison of Prenatal and Infant Mortality: The United States and Six West European Countries, March, 1967. This Monograph spells out marked differences in definition of terms of neonatal death, and variations in reliability of collecting of data among the various countries. It contains qualifying remarks...
Page 140 - But, the Council noted, figures compiled by the Professional Activity Study of the Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities showed identical peaks for patients 65 years and older even before Medicare was established.
Page 123 - Elimination of the fee has always been a must in our thinking, since it is a barrier to early entry into sick care. Early entry is essential for early treatment and for preventing serious illness and complications. Only after years of costly experience did we discover that the elimination of the fee is practically as much of a barrier to early sick care as the fee itself. The reason is that when we removed the fee, we removed...
Page 2 - consumer choice" or "competition" health insurance plans would make the nation's present costly, fragmented, and inflationary health care delivery system worse rather than better. The nation needs a health care system with basic coverage which emphasizes a comprehensive single standard of benefits, universal coverage, access to health care as a matter of right, incentives for reform of the delivery system, built-in quality controls, effective cost controls, minimum administrative overhead cost, equitable...