National Health Insurances - Implications, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Health and Enviornment of ..., 93-1 & 93-2, December 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1973; February 1, 2, 1974 |
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Page 591 - Such investments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States.
Page 594 - Secretary, shall be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day, Including travel time, and while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, Including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 USC 73b-2) for persons In the Government service employed Intermittently.
Page 591 - It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to invest such portion of the trust fund as is not, in his judgment, required to meet current withdrawals. Such investments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States...
Page 594 - Chairman, and fifteen persons not otherwise in the employ of the United States, appointed by the Secretary without regard to the civil service laws.
Page 591 - Board of Trustees') composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, all ex officio. The Secretary of the Treasury shall be the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'Managing Trustee').
Page ii - Maternal and Child Health University of North Carolina School of Public Health Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 This testimony is presented on behalf of the American Public Health Association.
Page 593 - No disbursing officer shall, in the absence of gross negligence or intent to defraud the United States, be liable with respect to any payment by him under this...
Page 593 - ... maintain such records and afford such access thereto as the Secretary finds necessary to assure the correctness and verification of the information and reports under...
Page 29 - ... these complex organizations. New financial incentives, particularly the notions of prebudgeting based on fixed annual payments for each person enrolled in a health-care plan or system and of assigned risk or responsibility, should encourage needed changes. For example, prepaid group practices (such as the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York) have already demonstrated that a large portion of the healthcare dollar can be shifted from inpatient hospital...
Page 2 - The massive infusion of Federal funds into the existing health care system has contributed to inflationary increases in the cost of health care and failed to produce an adequate supply or distribution of health resources, and consequently has not made possible equal access for everyone to such resources.