A Call for Action: Executive SummaryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 18 pages |
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... : P39 / sum . COP3 A Call for Action THE PEPPER COMMISSION U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care Executive Summary September 1990 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA - CHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS A. Front Cover.
... : P39 / sum . COP3 A Call for Action THE PEPPER COMMISSION U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care Executive Summary September 1990 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA - CHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS A. Front Cover.
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... cover all Americans . But to do so , some would replace the system . Others would reshape it , often in dramatically different ways . People and insti- tutions criticize and ultimately reject initiatives that differ from their ideal or ...
... cover all Americans . But to do so , some would replace the system . Others would reshape it , often in dramatically different ways . People and insti- tutions criticize and ultimately reject initiatives that differ from their ideal or ...
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... cover- age and straining the system's capacity to provide care for those who cannot pay . The gap is widening between the majority of Americans , who can take ad- vantage of the best medical services in the world , and the rest , who ...
... cover- age and straining the system's capacity to provide care for those who cannot pay . The gap is widening between the majority of Americans , who can take ad- vantage of the best medical services in the world , and the rest , who ...
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... cover their losses on uninsured patients from their charges to those who can pay - primarily the privately insured . For hospitals this cost shifting to- taled $ 8.3 billion in 1988 . Cost shifting has long been regarded as a hidden tax ...
... cover their losses on uninsured patients from their charges to those who can pay - primarily the privately insured . For hospitals this cost shifting to- taled $ 8.3 billion in 1988 . Cost shifting has long been regarded as a hidden tax ...
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... cover all the poor plus subsidies to help the near - poor purchase private health insur- ance . The Commission believes that such an approach would be an inadequate response to the crisis . Even the substantial expansion of public ...
... cover all the poor plus subsidies to help the near - poor purchase private health insur- ance . The Commission believes that such an approach would be an inadequate response to the crisis . Even the substantial expansion of public ...
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