Public Hearings on National Health Insurance: Prepared Statements of Witnesses, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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... percent to more than $ 118 billion for fiscal 1975. Total federal expenditures for personal health services have increased 86 percent to an estimated $ 28.6 billion for fiscal 1975. Federal expenditures for Medicaid have nearly doubled ...
... percent to more than $ 118 billion for fiscal 1975. Total federal expenditures for personal health services have increased 86 percent to an estimated $ 28.6 billion for fiscal 1975. Federal expenditures for Medicaid have nearly doubled ...
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... percent reduction in services for the poor , but an increase in physician services for the rest of the population . Thus , total utilization increased rather than decreased after the introduction of co - payments . The only effect of co ...
... percent reduction in services for the poor , but an increase in physician services for the rest of the population . Thus , total utilization increased rather than decreased after the introduction of co - payments . The only effect of co ...
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... percent of total hospitalization -- expense . For the United States , this compares with a Blue Cross administration expense of 8.9 percent of hospital claims in 1973. Thus , Blue Cross is seven times more expensive than Canadian ...
... percent of total hospitalization -- expense . For the United States , this compares with a Blue Cross administration expense of 8.9 percent of hospital claims in 1973. Thus , Blue Cross is seven times more expensive than Canadian ...
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... percent a year . Yet all the bills , except Health Security , have such income tests . All of the complexities of income determination could cause a minimum overhead waste of several billion dollars which would be used to hire an ...
... percent a year . Yet all the bills , except Health Security , have such income tests . All of the complexities of income determination could cause a minimum overhead waste of several billion dollars which would be used to hire an ...
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... percent of the money would come from : a 3.5 percent tax on employer payroll ; a 1 percent tax on the first $ 20,000 a year in wages and non - earned income and a 2.5 percent tax on the first $ 20,000 a year of self- employment income ...
... percent of the money would come from : a 3.5 percent tax on employer payroll ; a 1 percent tax on the first $ 20,000 a year in wages and non - earned income and a 2.5 percent tax on the first $ 20,000 a year of self- employment income ...
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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...