Public Hearings on National Health Insurance: Prepared Statements of Witnesses, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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... Organizations : George Meany , President ... 1 Group Health Association of America : Jeffery Cohelan , Executive Director . 59 Kaiser Foundation Health Plan , Inc .: Gibson Kingren , Vice President ..... 64 Association of American ...
... Organizations : George Meany , President ... 1 Group Health Association of America : Jeffery Cohelan , Executive Director . 59 Kaiser Foundation Health Plan , Inc .: Gibson Kingren , Vice President ..... 64 Association of American ...
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... organization , could be called " more liberal . " The problems of access , cost , waste , duplication , poor quality the undeniable health care crisis that exists in America have become more ... Organizations: George Meany, President.
... organization , could be called " more liberal . " The problems of access , cost , waste , duplication , poor quality the undeniable health care crisis that exists in America have become more ... Organizations: George Meany, President.
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... organizations has repeatedly demonstrated , comprehensive medical care , without cost - sharing deterrents is probably not only the best way to maintain a person's health , but is also most economical in the long run . " California ...
... organizations has repeatedly demonstrated , comprehensive medical care , without cost - sharing deterrents is probably not only the best way to maintain a person's health , but is also most economical in the long run . " California ...
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... organizational arrangements for the delivery of care . Under a budgeting system , hospitals would be expected to live within a pre- negotiated budget , but they would receive a check periodically with very few strings attached ...
... organizational arrangements for the delivery of care . Under a budgeting system , hospitals would be expected to live within a pre- negotiated budget , but they would receive a check periodically with very few strings attached ...
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... Organizations , though important , are not enough . Quality control should be an integral part of any national ... Organization Act of 1973 is a positive step forward , but it cannot achieve its full potential until America provides the ...
... Organizations , though important , are not enough . Quality control should be an integral part of any national ... Organization Act of 1973 is a positive step forward , but it cannot achieve its full potential until America provides the ...
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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...