Public Hearings on National Health Insurance: Prepared Statements of Witnesses, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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... proposal which , for that organiza- tion and only that 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 ...
... proposal which , for that organiza- tion and only that 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 ...
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... proposals is how that pie is divided up . That does not mean that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the programs , since they would all cost about the same amount . There are vast differences . -- the First , the total ...
... proposals is how that pie is divided up . That does not mean that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the programs , since they would all cost about the same amount . There are vast differences . -- the First , the total ...
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... proposals , participation in the program would generally be voluntary ; thus , many individuals would fail to enroll . They would play Russian roulette and gamble that they would not face expensive medical bills . Health Care as a ...
... proposals , participation in the program would generally be voluntary ; thus , many individuals would fail to enroll . They would play Russian roulette and gamble that they would not face expensive medical bills . Health Care as a ...
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... propose , under the guise of " national health insurance , " a program which gives the government the poor risks , while taking the profitable risks for themselves . Experience rating is not only morally wrong , it is 7.
... propose , under the guise of " national health insurance , " a program which gives the government the poor risks , while taking the profitable risks for themselves . Experience rating is not only morally wrong , it is 7.
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... proposals , and individual policies only pay out 53 percent of premiums in benefit claims . Another major waste in the other proposal is the cost of marketing a multiplicity of different benefit packages . While all of these bills would ...
... proposals , and individual policies only pay out 53 percent of premiums in benefit claims . Another major waste in the other proposal is the cost of marketing a multiplicity of different benefit packages . While all of these bills would ...
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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...