Public Hearings on National Health Insurance: Prepared Statements of Witnesses, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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... population . Thus , total utilization increased rather than decreased after the introduction of co - payments . The only effect of co - payments was to shift services from the poor to those able to pay . The California co - payment ...
... population . Thus , total utilization increased rather than decreased after the introduction of co - payments . The only effect of co - payments was to shift services from the poor to those able to pay . The California co - payment ...
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... population into separate groups such as the employed , the aged , the self - employed and the poor . Under these proposals , participation in the program would generally be voluntary ; thus , many individuals would fail to enroll . They ...
... population into separate groups such as the employed , the aged , the self - employed and the poor . Under these proposals , participation in the program would generally be voluntary ; thus , many individuals would fail to enroll . They ...
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... population . This is a basic principle of social insurance in contrast to private insurance , which places more of the financial burden of health insurance on the sick , the poor and the old . It is interesting to note that the private ...
... population . This is a basic principle of social insurance in contrast to private insurance , which places more of the financial burden of health insurance on the sick , the poor and the old . It is interesting to note that the private ...
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... population ratio in the country for every 296 people . There are three medical schools , the National Institutes of Health and scores of research and clinical facilities . -- one doctor But physician fees in Washington are among the ...
... population ratio in the country for every 296 people . There are three medical schools , the National Institutes of Health and scores of research and clinical facilities . -- one doctor But physician fees in Washington are among the ...
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... insurance was expensive in terms of the mechanical function of processing claims and , more importantly , incapable of influencing the delivery system to be responsive to the needs of the population . For these reasons , 11.
... insurance was expensive in terms of the mechanical function of processing claims and , more importantly , incapable of influencing the delivery system to be responsive to the needs of the population . For these reasons , 11.
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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.
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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...