Costs and Delivery of Health Services to Older Americans: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly of the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First [and Second] Session[s].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 |
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... practice , that somewhere if they participated in this program they were required to go out and see these people . Mr. DAVID . No , sir . Dr. SILVER . This is a general problem in medical practice in the United States today . There was ...
... practice , that somewhere if they participated in this program they were required to go out and see these people . Mr. DAVID . No , sir . Dr. SILVER . This is a general problem in medical practice in the United States today . There was ...
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... practice and pediatrics than it is in some of the specialties . We have to do many things to overcome the shortage and I would not consider simply producing more physicians as the essential an- swer . What we need to do is use the ...
... practice and pediatrics than it is in some of the specialties . We have to do many things to overcome the shortage and I would not consider simply producing more physicians as the essential an- swer . What we need to do is use the ...
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... PRACTICE When I went into private practice , my attitude changed . Every time I ordered a laboratory test or an X - ray , I knew that the patient was going to have to pay for it , if not personally at least through his insurance ...
... PRACTICE When I went into private practice , my attitude changed . Every time I ordered a laboratory test or an X - ray , I knew that the patient was going to have to pay for it , if not personally at least through his insurance ...
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... practice , where if a man has no insurance he gets out of there a little bit more quickly . WHAT IS OPTIMUM CARE Now , again , what is optimum care ? Here it is pretty difficult to define . If you give him 2 extra days , is this bad ...
... practice , where if a man has no insurance he gets out of there a little bit more quickly . WHAT IS OPTIMUM CARE Now , again , what is optimum care ? Here it is pretty difficult to define . If you give him 2 extra days , is this bad ...
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... practice of doing procedures that don't need to be done and inflating fees just to get more money from the Government is ethically bad . But the philosophy that seems to prevail everywhere is that if you can get extra money from the ...
... practice of doing procedures that don't need to be done and inflating fees just to get more money from the Government is ethically bad . But the philosophy that seems to prevail everywhere is that if you can get extra money from the ...
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