Public Hearings on National Health Insurance: Prepared Statements of Witnesses, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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... legislation and federal regu- lations . They would develop state plans subject to approval by the Secretary of Health . SHCs would approve health service areas and health care corporations ; B - 2 control the rates charged by health ...
... legislation and federal regu- lations . They would develop state plans subject to approval by the Secretary of Health . SHCs would approve health service areas and health care corporations ; B - 2 control the rates charged by health ...
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... legislation now before the Congress will , if adopted , solve most of these problems and HMO's will then be able to experience their anticipated growth . Mr. Chairman , we believe that Health Maintenance Organizations should play a key ...
... legislation now before the Congress will , if adopted , solve most of these problems and HMO's will then be able to experience their anticipated growth . Mr. Chairman , we believe that Health Maintenance Organizations should play a key ...
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... legislation should be designed to allow the continuation of organized health care delivery systems such as group practice prepayment programs . ( 2 ) Any National Health Insurance legislation will significantly affect group practice ...
... legislation should be designed to allow the continuation of organized health care delivery systems such as group practice prepayment programs . ( 2 ) Any National Health Insurance legislation will significantly affect group practice ...
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... legislation should include many of the outstanding features of group practice prepayment programs such as preventive health care , reduction of unnecessary surgery , the efficient use of physicians and paramedical personnel , and ...
... legislation should include many of the outstanding features of group practice prepayment programs such as preventive health care , reduction of unnecessary surgery , the efficient use of physicians and paramedical personnel , and ...
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... insurance function . Most of the financial risk of illness should be shared by all in an approxi- mately equal way through the insurance mechanism . The major purpose of national health insurance legislation , then 80.
... insurance function . Most of the financial risk of illness should be shared by all in an approxi- mately equal way through the insurance mechanism . The major purpose of national health insurance legislation , then 80.
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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...