Public Hearings on National Health Insurance: Prepared Statements of Witnesses, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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... premiums or taxes based on how sick or well an individual or group may be . Moreover , experience rating makes no sense since people are relatively healthy when young and relatively sickly when old . Should old people on limited incomes ...
... premiums or taxes based on how sick or well an individual or group may be . Moreover , experience rating makes no sense since people are relatively healthy when young and relatively sickly when old . Should old people on limited incomes ...
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... premium payments for the poor and near poor for coverage under private health insurance . Like the AMA and HIAA ... premiums and ( 6 ) marketing costs . Only Where a national health insurance program covers everybody and the plan is ...
... premium payments for the poor and near poor for coverage under private health insurance . Like the AMA and HIAA ... premiums and ( 6 ) marketing costs . Only Where a national health insurance program covers everybody and the plan is ...
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... premiums would be an added expense . In addition , high cost individual policies would be continued under these proposals , and individual policies only pay out 53 percent of premiums in benefit claims . Another major waste in the other ...
... premiums would be an added expense . In addition , high cost individual policies would be continued under these proposals , and individual policies only pay out 53 percent of premiums in benefit claims . Another major waste in the other ...
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... Premium fore , higher for the poor and unhealthy than for the rich and healthy . payments for health insurance are ... premiums . Health Security would be financed by a payroll tax matched by general revenues . Out - of - pocket ...
... Premium fore , higher for the poor and unhealthy than for the rich and healthy . payments for health insurance are ... premiums . Health Security would be financed by a payroll tax matched by general revenues . Out - of - pocket ...
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... premiums and / or copayments by poor persons in order to make health insurance available to those who otherwise could not afford to pay . This denies the concept that health care is a right of all citizens . All of the bills , except ...
... premiums and / or copayments by poor persons in order to make health insurance available to those who otherwise could not afford to pay . This denies the concept that health care is a right of all citizens . All of the bills , except ...
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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...