Hospital, Nursing Home, and Surgical Benefits for OASI Beneficiaries: Hearings, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4700, a Bill to Amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code So as to Provide Insurance Against the Cost of Hospital, Nursing Home, and Surgical Service for Persons Eligible for Old-age and Survivors Insurance Benefits, and for Other Purposes. July 13-17, 1959U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 720 pages Considers H.R. 4700, to guarantee adequate health care for dependent survivors and aged, retired and disabled individuals by amending the Social Security Act and Internal Revenue Code to establish and finance compulsory insurance against costs of hospitalization, nursing home care and surgical services. |
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... facilities than any other single thing . This bears out another point that I tried to make in requesting this report from Health , Education , and Welfare . In Congress we tend to break up subject matters in accord- ance with the ...
... facilities than any other single thing . This bears out another point that I tried to make in requesting this report from Health , Education , and Welfare . In Congress we tend to break up subject matters in accord- ance with the ...
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... facilities form part , includes general and special hospitals ; maternity accommodation ; tubercu- losis sanatoriums ; infectious disease hospitals ; provision for chronically sick , \ mental hospitals , and mental deficiency hospitals ...
... facilities form part , includes general and special hospitals ; maternity accommodation ; tubercu- losis sanatoriums ; infectious disease hospitals ; provision for chronically sick , \ mental hospitals , and mental deficiency hospitals ...
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... facilities and equipment are below the level deemed to be necessary . 3. In some hospitals some buildings are so obsolete as to create serious hazards . 4. Several hospitals in the past have substantially reduced their services ...
... facilities and equipment are below the level deemed to be necessary . 3. In some hospitals some buildings are so obsolete as to create serious hazards . 4. Several hospitals in the past have substantially reduced their services ...
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... facilities , impairment of research and training , or whether the taxpayers of this community and of the State are willing to pay a larger share of the costs in order to maintain and provide a high quality of hospital care in the Phila ...
... facilities , impairment of research and training , or whether the taxpayers of this community and of the State are willing to pay a larger share of the costs in order to maintain and provide a high quality of hospital care in the Phila ...
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... facilities for persons eligible for old - age and survivors insurance benefits . As background for our later comments and observations , we feel the committee should have the following information : 71 percent of the patients in nursing ...
... facilities for persons eligible for old - age and survivors insurance benefits . As background for our later comments and observations , we feel the committee should have the following information : 71 percent of the patients in nursing ...
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