Public Hearings on National Health Insurance: Prepared Statements of Witnesses, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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... physician services in 1969 . This modest co - payment did result in an 18 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 ...
... physician services in 1969 . This modest co - payment did result in an 18 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 ...
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... physicians on the basis of usual and customary fees and reimbursing hospitals on a cost - plus basis leads to inflation of physician fees and hospital charges . An essential goal of H.R. 21 is to contain the escalation of these health ...
... physicians on the basis of usual and customary fees and reimbursing hospitals on a cost - plus basis leads to inflation of physician fees and hospital charges . An essential goal of H.R. 21 is to contain the escalation of these health ...
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... Physicians have a legitimate if exaggerated , fear of " cookbook " medicine , but regulation would likely move the system slowly in this direction . The main problem with leaving the financing of health care in the hands of the ...
... Physicians have a legitimate if exaggerated , fear of " cookbook " medicine , but regulation would likely move the system slowly in this direction . The main problem with leaving the financing of health care in the hands of the ...
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... physician services . This ia an incentive for a better georgraphical distribution of physicians . Similar considerations would apply to facilities . Because of built - in - cost controls in a budgeting system , it does not rely ...
... physician services . This ia an incentive for a better georgraphical distribution of physicians . Similar considerations would apply to facilities . Because of built - in - cost controls in a budgeting system , it does not rely ...
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... have no exclusions for pre - existing conditions ; no limits on preventive medical services ; no coinsurance ; no deductibles ; no waiting periods . A - 2 Physicians Services -- Professional services by physicians 17.
... have no exclusions for pre - existing conditions ; no limits on preventive medical services ; no coinsurance ; no deductibles ; no waiting periods . A - 2 Physicians Services -- Professional services by physicians 17.
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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...