The Future of Medicare--N.J.: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Human Services of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, March 28, 1983, Princeton, N.J.U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - 219 pages |
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... The question we must face , and the question that hopefully we can get some answers to this morning , is : How do we protect health benefits for the elderly ? ( 1 ) The Congressional Budget Office predicts that medicare outlays will rise.
... The question we must face , and the question that hopefully we can get some answers to this morning , is : How do we protect health benefits for the elderly ? ( 1 ) The Congressional Budget Office predicts that medicare outlays will rise.
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... rise an average of 13.2 percent annually over the next decade . Revenues , on the other hand , are expected to rise only 6.8 percent . That structural funding gap spells disaster for America's elderly . The increase in medicare costs is ...
... rise an average of 13.2 percent annually over the next decade . Revenues , on the other hand , are expected to rise only 6.8 percent . That structural funding gap spells disaster for America's elderly . The increase in medicare costs is ...
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... rise 19 percent in 1983. Because of these large in- creases and because physicians have been largely unaffected by the cost control pro- visions of TEFRA and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 , we propose to freeze ...
... rise 19 percent in 1983. Because of these large in- creases and because physicians have been largely unaffected by the cost control pro- visions of TEFRA and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 , we propose to freeze ...
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... year . What we are suggesting by the 1 - year freeze would be to not allow physician fees to rise 8 or 9 per- cent as they normally do under our current program . That would be difference of about $ 1.50 in an office visit 24.
... year . What we are suggesting by the 1 - year freeze would be to not allow physician fees to rise 8 or 9 per- cent as they normally do under our current program . That would be difference of about $ 1.50 in an office visit 24.
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... rise to $ 13.50 a month from the current $ 12.20 , an increase of 14 percent , while there will be a freeze on the cost - of - living increase on the checks for seniors . The taxing as income of employee health benefits would adverse ...
... rise to $ 13.50 a month from the current $ 12.20 , an increase of 14 percent , while there will be a freeze on the cost - of - living increase on the checks for seniors . The taxing as income of employee health benefits would adverse ...
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Page 202 - The most critical issues, however, relate to the Medicare program. Both the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund show alarming financial results...
Page 26 - ... (1) part-time or intermittent nursing care provided by or under the supervision of a registered professional nurse...
Page 27 - ... (A) in the case of home health services (i) such services are or were required because the individual is or was confined to his home (except when receiving items and services referred to in section 1861 (m)( 7) ) and needed skilled nursing care on an intermittent basis, or physical or speech therapy...
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Page 80 - ... already so apparent that it seems inevitable that it will have to be revised, qualified, or regulated by law before the program is very old. If repayment of costs, whatever they turn out to be, is virtually guaranteed— and Medicare, under present regulations, is openended in that respect— where are the financial incentives for cost control, difficult enough in any case, to come from?
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Page 80 - In no other realm of economic life today are payments guaranteed for costs that are neither controlled by competition nor regulated by public authority, and in which no incentive for economy can be discerned.
Page 84 - The splitting of the atom has changed everything, save our mode of thinking and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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