National Health Insurance-implications: HearingsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 595 pages |
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Page 594 - 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 or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States.
Page viii - 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 594 - ... all marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States then forming a part of the public debt...
Page 460 - Organization defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being— not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Page 212 - Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 3-B-5 Meadows East Building, 6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Md.
Page 8 - 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.
Page 594 - ... and Welfare shall have certified as overpayments (other than amounts so certified to the Railroad Retirement Board) pursuant to section 1870(b) of this Act. There shall be transferred periodically (but not less often than once each fiscal year) to the Trust Fund from the Railroad Retirement Account...
Page 583 - Druggists (NARD) represents the owners of 40,000 independent pharmacies, where over 75,000 pharmacists dispense more than 70 percent of the nation's prescription drugs. Together, they serve 18 million persons daily and provide nearly 85 percent of the Medicaid pharmaceutical services.
Page 223 - ... primary effect of this insurance is to distort the pattern of medical care and to exacerbate the rising cost of hospital care. Moreover, this subsidy, which costs taxpayers several billion dollars a year, is quite regressive: The subsidy is greatest for middle- and upper-income employees in high-wage industries. In short, the current tax treatment of insurance premiums, particularly the exclusion of employer payments from the employees' taxable incomes, is a costly, regressive, and inefficient...
Page 424 - ... which might have been saved ; that tens of thousands of cases of sickness occur which might have been prevented ; that a vast amount of unnecessarily impaired health and physical debility exists...