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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... estimated costs range up to $ 100 billion a year ? " Mr. Woolley will later make more comments about this $ 100 billion figure . Politicians , in order to conceal the truth , must affirmatively dwell on promised benefits and paint ...
... estimated costs range up to $ 100 billion a year ? " Mr. Woolley will later make more comments about this $ 100 billion figure . Politicians , in order to conceal the truth , must affirmatively dwell on promised benefits and paint ...
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... estimate of costs and this , incidentally , was the estimate of HEW - assuming that the HEW bureaucrats ' estimate of costs are equally as inaccurate as their medi- care estimates have proven to be , then the cost of the Kennedy - Cor ...
... estimate of costs and this , incidentally , was the estimate of HEW - assuming that the HEW bureaucrats ' estimate of costs are equally as inaccurate as their medi- care estimates have proven to be , then the cost of the Kennedy - Cor ...
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... estimates originally promised when the legislation was considered . This Congress , considering legislation to nationalize medicine , should not repeat the mistake made in 1965 when Congress passed the medicare - medicaid law on the ...
... estimates originally promised when the legislation was considered . This Congress , considering legislation to nationalize medicine , should not repeat the mistake made in 1965 when Congress passed the medicare - medicaid law on the ...
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... estimates were " con- servative " and " safe " and that the first year of Medicare hospitalization alone for everyone over 65 years of age would only cost $ 900 million . ( See testimony of HEW Sec . Abraham Ribicoff , July 24 , 1961 ...
... estimates were " con- servative " and " safe " and that the first year of Medicare hospitalization alone for everyone over 65 years of age would only cost $ 900 million . ( See testimony of HEW Sec . Abraham Ribicoff , July 24 , 1961 ...
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... estimates per capita expenditures would be $ 600 the first year . However , if allowance is made for the fact that HEW bureaucrats never have estimated the cost of any program as high as it has actually turned out to be and we apply the ...
... estimates per capita expenditures would be $ 600 the first year . However , if allowance is made for the fact that HEW bureaucrats never have estimated the cost of any program as high as it has actually turned out to be and we apply the ...
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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...