Government and Public Health in AmericaEdward Elgar Publishing, 2008 M01 1 - 544 pages How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility for our health: the Public Health Servic |
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... health care in the United States is in private hands and that market ... health care system is truly massive. Besides annual expenditures of over half a trillion dollars,2 federal agencies provide some form of hospital and medical insurance ...
... health care in the United States is in private hands and that market ... health care system is truly massive. Besides annual expenditures of over half a trillion dollars,2 federal agencies provide some form of hospital and medical insurance ...
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... health-insurance bill, however, Congress was unsuccessful until the first session of the 89th Congress. After successes in both the House and Senate, President Lyndon Johnson, on 30 July 1965 was able to sign a measure extending health ...
... health-insurance bill, however, Congress was unsuccessful until the first session of the 89th Congress. After successes in both the House and Senate, President Lyndon Johnson, on 30 July 1965 was able to sign a measure extending health ...
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... health care, including the administrative costs of non-profit and government health programs, the net cost to consumers of private health insurance, non-profit health research, and construction of medical facilities. Sources: Data for ...
... health care, including the administrative costs of non-profit and government health programs, the net cost to consumers of private health insurance, non-profit health research, and construction of medical facilities. Sources: Data for ...
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... Insurance.59 The Service's mandate to take charge of the medical examinations of veterans to determine if they were disabled and to provide the necessary care and treatment for disabled veterans in hospitals and dispensaries was ...
... Insurance.59 The Service's mandate to take charge of the medical examinations of veterans to determine if they were disabled and to provide the necessary care and treatment for disabled veterans in hospitals and dispensaries was ...
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... health insurance. It was not until 1965, however, that such a scheme, limited to the elderly, was enacted. When the Public Health Service was originally created as the United States Marine Hospital Service 1798, it was located within ...
... health insurance. It was not until 1965, however, that such a scheme, limited to the elderly, was enacted. When the Public Health Service was originally created as the United States Marine Hospital Service 1798, it was located within ...
Contents
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The Food and Drug Administration | 103 |
The Veterans Administration | 271 |
The National Institutes of Health | 340 |
Medicare | 444 |
Index | 503 |
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Page 186 - That no additive shall be deemed to be safe if it is found to induce cancer when ingested by man or animal, or if it is found, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of food additives, to induce cancer in man or animal...
Page 133 - ... Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 'package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package or if...
Page 345 - The Public Health Service may study and investigate the diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage and the pollution either directly or indirectly of the navigable streams and lakes of the United States...
Page 454 - The American Public Welfare Association, and the National Association of Social Workers.
Page 133 - First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.
Page 250 - To the dispensing or distribution of any of the aforesaid drugs to a patient by a physician, dentist, or veterinary surgeon registered under this chapter in the course of his professional practice only...
Page 440 - The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease.
Page 182 - ... interstate commerce, shall be liable to be proceeded against while in interstate commerce, or at any time thereafter, on libel of information and condemned in any district court of...
Page 121 - Treasury as ex officio members, and of the Surgeon General of the Army, the Surgeon General of the Navy, and the...