Crisis in Health Care, an Overview: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, May 5, 1983

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Page 150 - Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which medical services are provided...
Page 8 - The right of every family to a decent home; The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health...
Page 201 - The failure to rationalize medical services under public control meant that sooner or later they would be rationalized under private control. Instead of public regulation, there will be private regulation, and instead of public planning, there will be corporate planning. Instead of public financing for prepaid plans that might be managed by the subscribers...
Page 95 - The Gerontological Society of America Gray Panthers National Association of Area Agencies on Aging National Association of Foster Grandparents Program Directors National Association of Mature People National Association of Meal Programs National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs National Association of Older American Volunteer Program Directors National Association of RSVP Directors, Inc.
Page 197 - July 1 , 1969, early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment of physical and mental defects in eligible people under 21. (5) Physicians' services (in the office, patient's home, hospital, skilled nursing home, or elsewhere).
Page 95 - Association of Meal Programs National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs National Association of Older American Volunteer Program Directors National Association of RSVP Directors, Inc. National Association of Retired Federal Employees National Association of Senior Companion Project Directors National Association of State Units on Aging National Caucus and Center on Black Aged, Inc. National Council of Senior Citizens National Council on the Aging, Inc. National Indian Council on...
Page 5 - Whenever the miracles of modern medicine are beyond the reach of any group of Americans, for whatever reason — economic, geographic, occupational, or other — we must find a way to meet their needs and fulfill their hopes. For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members.
Page 170 - It was the most brilliant legislative move I'd seen in thirty years. The doctors couldn't complain, because they had been carping about Medicare's shortcomings and about its being compulsory. And the Republicans couldn't complain, because it was their own idea. In effect, Mills had taken the AMA's ammunition, put it in the Republicans' gun, and blown both of them off the map.
Page 15 - The result was enactment of our social security program, a program now fixed as a valued part of our national life. Since World War II, there has been increasing awareness of the fact that the full value of social security would not be realized unless provision were made to deal with the problem of costs of illnesses among our older citizens.
Page 25 - I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, and the members of the committee for your willingness to hear my views on the situation in South Vietnam.

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