Costs and Delivery of Health Services to Older Americans: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, First [and Second] Session[s].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 |
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Page 611
... medicare is already having tremen- dous impact . On July 1 , when medicare was 2 years old , President Johnson reported that 20 million Americans of age 65 and over - 10 percent of the Nation's population - were covered by the program ...
... medicare is already having tremen- dous impact . On July 1 , when medicare was 2 years old , President Johnson reported that 20 million Americans of age 65 and over - 10 percent of the Nation's population - were covered by the program ...
Page 612
... medicare has already proved itself to be a blessing , it should not be regarded as a cure - all for all that may be wrong with our health care services today . Medicare , after all , merely provides the wherewithal to pay for cer- tain ...
... medicare has already proved itself to be a blessing , it should not be regarded as a cure - all for all that may be wrong with our health care services today . Medicare , after all , merely provides the wherewithal to pay for cer- tain ...
Page 613
... medicare . His answer was prompt . He said we should try to keep as many people as possible out of hospitals . One way to do that is to promote health maintenance programs , including regular disease detection screening . As things ...
... medicare . His answer was prompt . He said we should try to keep as many people as possible out of hospitals . One way to do that is to promote health maintenance programs , including regular disease detection screening . As things ...
Page 619
... medicare and medicaid have not been a cause of recent spiraling increases in the cost of health care . Two examples from the Medi - Cal program in California should suffice to illustrate what a basically open - ended program will ...
... medicare and medicaid have not been a cause of recent spiraling increases in the cost of health care . Two examples from the Medi - Cal program in California should suffice to illustrate what a basically open - ended program will ...
Page 620
... medicare because , in general , in the public mind the programs are relatively indistinguish- able . So when there is an attack launched upon the Medi - Cal provisions , title 19 provisions of this program , it invariably slops over and ...
... medicare because , in general , in the public mind the programs are relatively indistinguish- able . So when there is an attack launched upon the Medi - Cal provisions , title 19 provisions of this program , it invariably slops over and ...
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