National Health Insurance: Public Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 |
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... medicare and medicaid which clearly show that if such programs are applied to all the people , not only will New York be bankrupt , but the entire country will be bankrupt . If you are concerned about the effect of the financial col ...
... medicare and medicaid which clearly show that if such programs are applied to all the people , not only will New York be bankrupt , but the entire country will be bankrupt . If you are concerned about the effect of the financial col ...
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... medicare hospitalization alone for everyone over 65 years of age would only cost $ 900 million . The truth is that it cost $ 2.7 billion . The estimates were not just 10 or 20 percent off , but 300 percent off . Medicare cost three ...
... medicare hospitalization alone for everyone over 65 years of age would only cost $ 900 million . The truth is that it cost $ 2.7 billion . The estimates were not just 10 or 20 percent off , but 300 percent off . Medicare cost three ...
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... medicare - medicaid law . That law is now helping to bankrupt the Federal and State gov- ernments by costing $ 28.7 billion in 1976 - which is over 15 times more than the top estimates originally promised when the legislation was ...
... medicare - medicaid law . That law is now helping to bankrupt the Federal and State gov- ernments by costing $ 28.7 billion in 1976 - which is over 15 times more than the top estimates originally promised when the legislation was ...
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... Medicare and Medicaid which clearly shows that if such programs are applied to all the people not only will New York be bankrupt but the entire country will be bankrupt . If you are concerned about the effect of the financial collapse ...
... Medicare and Medicaid which clearly shows that if such programs are applied to all the people not only will New York be bankrupt but the entire country will be bankrupt . If you are concerned about the effect of the financial collapse ...
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... Medicare to the Kennedy - Corman bill , the first year cost per person of that program would be $ 1,784 and the tenth year cost would be $ 3,154 per person . In order to get this into focus for a family of four , consider these facts ...
... Medicare to the Kennedy - Corman bill , the first year cost per person of that program would be $ 1,784 and the tenth year cost would be $ 3,154 per person . In order to get this into focus for a family of four , consider these facts ...
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Page 137 - The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.
Page 238 - Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which medical services are provided...
Page 7 - Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one in a million is able to diagnose.
Page 165 - 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 57 - That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity.
Page 62 - Yet. the United States is the only industrialized Nation in the world that does not have a national health program for its people.
Page 146 - ... data base development, evaluation and demonstration, and technical assistance in providing leadership and direction to a comprehensive national health education program on the prevention of disease, disability, premature death, and undesirable and unnecessary health problems.
Page 387 - State or local agency knows that a third party has such a legal liability such agency will treat such legal liability as a resource of the individual on whose behalf the care and services are made available for purposes...
Page 238 - ... this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which medical services are provided, or over the selection, tenure, or compensation of any officer or employee of any institution, agency, or person...