Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Parts 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 |
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... less than $ 50 on the medical and other health services covered by Part B of Medicare . " The 6.6 % rise in physicians ' fees in 1966 will have a significant effect on total medical expenditures . Since consumer expenditures on ...
... less than $ 50 on the medical and other health services covered by Part B of Medicare . " The 6.6 % rise in physicians ' fees in 1966 will have a significant effect on total medical expenditures . Since consumer expenditures on ...
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... less about money with the medicare patient , we think more about money with a private patient . We are not so conscious of what the medicare pa- tient has to spend , what his medical care costs him as we are with the private patient ...
... less about money with the medicare patient , we think more about money with a private patient . We are not so conscious of what the medicare pa- tient has to spend , what his medical care costs him as we are with the private patient ...
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... less completely socialized medicine . I do think it might help if the administration of the medicare program were , at least to a significant extent , put under the control of doctors who were acquainted with the attitude of private ...
... less completely socialized medicine . I do think it might help if the administration of the medicare program were , at least to a significant extent , put under the control of doctors who were acquainted with the attitude of private ...
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... less than one in three doctors do . It is often all a low - income senior can do to pay the entire amount of his doctor bill in cash so he can get a receipted itemized statement of services performed by the doctors . For the elderly ...
... less than one in three doctors do . It is often all a low - income senior can do to pay the entire amount of his doctor bill in cash so he can get a receipted itemized statement of services performed by the doctors . For the elderly ...
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... less than half the respondents agreed that hospital costs were appropriate for the care received and more than one - third flatly disagreed that hospital costs were fair . Attitudes toward nursing homes were much less positive and , in ...
... less than half the respondents agreed that hospital costs were appropriate for the care received and more than one - third flatly disagreed that hospital costs were fair . Attitudes toward nursing homes were much less positive and , in ...
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Page 614 - For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Page 457 - In a joint effort, the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
Page 209 - Smith observed that the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market.
Page 189 - ... by less than the standard error. The chances are about 95 out of 100 that the difference would be less than twice the standard error. The...
Page 188 - The standard error is primarily a measure of sampling variability, that is, of the variations that occur by chance because a sample rather than the whole of the population is surveyed. As calculated for this report, the standard error also partially measures the effect of response and enumeration errors, but it does not measure as such, any systematic biases in the data.
Page 188 - Reliability of the Estimates. Since the estimates are based on a sample, they may differ somewhat from the figures that would have been obtained if a complete census had been taken using the same schedules, instructions and enumerators.
Page 197 - ... 12-18% in blood grouping and typing; by 20-30% in hemoglobin measurements; by 40-80% in differential characterization of blood cells; and by 2030% in measurement of serum electrolytes. There also exists considerable variation In results from laboratory to laboratory. This information imlicutes that erroneous results are obtained in more than 25% of all tests analyzed by these studies.
Page 370 - American patent system and the need for legislative reform to eliminate the opportunity for misusing patents, stated: "* * * but we must be careful not to throw out the baby with the bath water.
Page 332 - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in cooperation with the Department of Defense and the Veterans...
Page 189 - The memory factor in data derived from field surveys of income probably produces underestimates, because the tendency is to forget minor or irregular sources of income. Other errors of reporting are due to misrepresentation or to misunderstanding as to the scope of the income concept.