Medicare-medicaid Administrative and Reimbursement Reform Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 1470 ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 638 pages |
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... containment proposal . While that bill must ultimately come before this committee , it is currently being considered by the Senate Human Resources Committee , which has jurisdiction over a part of the bill , and the Ways and Means and ...
... containment proposal . While that bill must ultimately come before this committee , it is currently being considered by the Senate Human Resources Committee , which has jurisdiction over a part of the bill , and the Ways and Means and ...
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... Containment Act of 1977 , which also addresses the problem . As you noted when introducing S. 1470 , the administration bill is a stopgap , transitional measure that complements the long - term struc- tural reform contained in the ...
... Containment Act of 1977 , which also addresses the problem . As you noted when introducing S. 1470 , the administration bill is a stopgap , transitional measure that complements the long - term struc- tural reform contained in the ...
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... Containment Act of 1977 is complementary to S. 1470. The administration's cost contain- ment proposal is a transitional program , designed to restrain the in- tolerable current rate of increase in hospital costs and to gain the time ...
... Containment Act of 1977 is complementary to S. 1470. The administration's cost contain- ment proposal is a transitional program , designed to restrain the in- tolerable current rate of increase in hospital costs and to gain the time ...
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... containment program and then moving to a longer term system . As noted , we feel strongly that the problem of rising costs is of such disastrous proportions that we simply cannot wait for a perfect solution before acting . It is ...
... containment program and then moving to a longer term system . As noted , we feel strongly that the problem of rising costs is of such disastrous proportions that we simply cannot wait for a perfect solution before acting . It is ...
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... Containment Act of 1977 , we believe that the administration's proposal is a neces- sary precursor to the major , structural hospital reimbursement re- forms set forth in S. 1470 . Mr. Chairman , I will submit the rest of my statement ...
... Containment Act of 1977 , we believe that the administration's proposal is a neces- sary precursor to the major , structural hospital reimbursement re- forms set forth in S. 1470 . Mr. Chairman , I will submit the rest of my statement ...
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