Public Hearings on National Health Insurance: Prepared Statements of Witnesses, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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... continue today , efforts to confuse the question , particularly on the matter of cost . On this issue there has been honest confusion , honest disagreement and , regrettably , dishonest scare tactics . So , our testimony here today will ...
... continue today , efforts to confuse the question , particularly on the matter of cost . On this issue there has been honest confusion , honest disagreement and , regrettably , dishonest scare tactics . So , our testimony here today will ...
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... continue to spend it in the same way . This cost issue -- -- What which is really a non - issue continues to confuse the debate about national health insurance . It is a recurring theme that is intertwined in a host of side issues ...
... continue to spend it in the same way . This cost issue -- -- What which is really a non - issue continues to confuse the debate about national health insurance . It is a recurring theme that is intertwined in a host of side issues ...
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... continuing responsibility of developing and enforcing national standards for participation by doctors , hospitals and other institutional providers . Today the delivery system of health care Transforming that into Reform of the delivery ...
... continuing responsibility of developing and enforcing national standards for participation by doctors , hospitals and other institutional providers . Today the delivery system of health care Transforming that into Reform of the delivery ...
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... continue the vicious and antisocial practice of experience rating which requires the aged , the poor and mothers of childbearing age to pay higher premiums for the same protection as is provided to other citizens . None of the ...
... continue the vicious and antisocial practice of experience rating which requires the aged , the poor and mothers of childbearing age to pay higher premiums for the same protection as is provided to other citizens . None of the ...
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... continuing education requirements . The Health Security Board would be authorized to establish national standards for professional personnel licensed after the program begins and to set require- ments for their continuing education ...
... continuing education requirements . The Health Security Board would be authorized to establish national standards for professional personnel licensed after the program begins and to set require- ments for their continuing education ...
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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...