Public Hearings on National Health Insurance: Prepared Statements of Witnesses, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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... high - cost treatment by specialists . Deductibles and co - insurance are barriers to health care , which discourage individuals from seeking proper preventive or early treatment . Prepaid group practice plans , now often called HMOs , 4.
... high - cost treatment by specialists . Deductibles and co - insurance are barriers to health care , which discourage individuals from seeking proper preventive or early treatment . Prepaid group practice plans , now often called HMOs , 4.
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... individuals would fail to enroll . They would play Russian roulette and gamble that they would not face expensive medical bills . Health Care as a Matter of Right -- In America , every citizen is entitled to a free public education as a ...
... individuals would fail to enroll . They would play Russian roulette and gamble that they would not face expensive medical bills . Health Care as a Matter of Right -- In America , every citizen is entitled to a free public education as a ...
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... individual's need . There should be no experience rating of health insurance premiums or taxes based on how sick or well an individual or group may be . Moreover , experience rating makes no sense since people are relatively healthy ...
... individual's need . There should be no experience rating of health insurance premiums or taxes based on how sick or well an individual or group may be . Moreover , experience rating makes no sense since people are relatively healthy ...
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... individuals move up and down the income ladder are enormous . For example , in Los Angeles the turnover of Medicaid ... individual policies only pay out 53 percent of premiums in benefit claims . Another major waste in the other ...
... individuals move up and down the income ladder are enormous . For example , in Los Angeles the turnover of Medicaid ... individual policies only pay out 53 percent of premiums in benefit claims . Another major waste in the other ...
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... individual and institutional providers . To develop and endorce such standards , a Commission on the Quality of Health Care would be established . It would be a quasi - independent board reporting to the Health Security Board , but with ...
... individual and institutional providers . To develop and endorce such standards , a Commission on the Quality of Health Care would be established . It would be a quasi - independent board reporting to the Health Security Board , but with ...
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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...