Public Hearings on National Health Insurance: Prepared Statements of Witnesses, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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... determination of cost - sharing factors increases administrative costs . Deductibles and co - payments limit the liability of insurers and the government . They constitute a convenient escape hatch for dealing with rising costs -- by ...
... determination of cost - sharing factors increases administrative costs . Deductibles and co - payments limit the liability of insurers and the government . They constitute a convenient escape hatch for dealing with rising costs -- by ...
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... determinations of eligibility considerable savings in administrative cost . a Only Health Security provides for universal coverage . The coverage gaps in other bills result from dividing the population into separate groups such as the ...
... determinations of eligibility considerable savings in administrative cost . a Only Health Security provides for universal coverage . The coverage gaps in other bills result from dividing the population into separate groups such as the ...
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... determination of eligibility , ( 2 ) processing claims with deductible and co - insurance provisions , ( 3 ) costs associated with experience rating , ( 4 ) income or means tests , ( 5 ) establishing a separate money collecting system ...
... determination of eligibility , ( 2 ) processing claims with deductible and co - insurance provisions , ( 3 ) costs associated with experience rating , ( 4 ) income or means tests , ( 5 ) establishing a separate money collecting system ...
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... determination could cause a minimum overhead waste of several billion dollars which would be used to hire an enormous number of clerks , claims processors , eligibility determinators and adjustors . The tax collecting machinery for ...
... determination could cause a minimum overhead waste of several billion dollars which would be used to hire an enormous number of clerks , claims processors , eligibility determinators and adjustors . The tax collecting machinery for ...
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... Compensation programs from cash payments would unduly complicate the eligibility determination process , Workmen's Compensation would be unaffected by Health Security . A - 7 Other Programs Maternal and Child Health Programs 22.
... Compensation programs from cash payments would unduly complicate the eligibility determination process , Workmen's Compensation would be unaffected by Health Security . A - 7 Other Programs Maternal and Child Health Programs 22.
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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...