Problems of the Aging: Kansas City MoU.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 |
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87th Congress able aged persons agencies Association benefits Blue Cross Blue Shield CARTER Clay County Committee on Aging Congress cost coverage DEAR SENATOR LONG December 12 disabled doctor doctor bills DOLLY MANN earnings employee favor feel financed funds garment worker Golden Age Club health insurance hearing hospital income increase Jackson County Medical Kansas City Kerr-Mills bill Kerr-Mills law King-Anderson bill LAMPHERE legislation live medical aid medical bills medical care program medically indigent Midwest Sociological Society million Missouri Missouri General Assembly month nursing home old age assistance older citizens older persons paid payment pension percent physicians population prepared statement present problems public assistance receive rehabilitation retired Reverend VEITH Richard Bolling ROBERT EISLER senior citizens social security tax socialized medicine staff subcommittee Thank things tion U.S. Senate voluntary welfare WINKLE
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Page 1689 - ... there will be the opportunity for the senior citizens to tell us their problems. They spend more time thinking about it than anyone, and the comments from that age reservoir group will be very helpful to the committee. Unless there is something else the committee will stand in recess until 2 o'clock. AFTERNOON SESSION (Whereupon, the hearing was resumed, pursuant to the taking of the recess at 2 pm) Senator LONG. The committee will come to order. There are two gentlemen who asked to present statements...
Page 1686 - Our organization is the result of a merger in 1969 of the Association of Rehabilitation Centers and the National Association of Sheltered Workshops and Homebound Programs.
Page 1651 - ... 2. To create public awareness and understanding of the needs and potentials of older persons. 3. To gather and disseminate information about research and action programs, and provide a clearing house for current plans and ongoing activities.
Page 1637 - ... Senate has been holding this fall around the country. The record of the testimony and discussions at these hearings will provide the basis for reports and recommendations to the Congress early next year. We will want to explore in some depth the very important subject of retirement income in Missouri. We now have more than half a million residents who have passed their 65th birthday. We need to know what sources and amounts of income these people have, the extent to which they can still count...
Page 1708 - HR 4222 would lead to the decline, if not the end, of private health insurance, which has made such great strides in recent years. The percentage of persons who are providing for their own hospital care through private insurance is constantly rising. It has come from 9 percent in 1940 to 50 percent in 1950 to over 72 percent now. In a similar manner, private health insurance coverage for the...
Page 1649 - Under provisions of this legislation benefits in excess of the maximum assistance payment may be made on behalf of recipients of public assistance for the purpose of providing in-patient hospital care in a licensed hospital to persons requiring hospitalization for medical emergencies or acute serious illness.
Page 1732 - December 15, 1961. DEAR SENATOR LONG : Here is what I would have said at the hearing of your subcommittee of the Special Committee on Aging if there had been time for everyone to speak : The premise of my opinion lies in simple mathematics and not in numbers but in percentages.
Page 1668 - ... professional and lay persons who are primarily interested in the evaluation of our present methods of providing health services, and of ways and means of making available better medical care for the American people, particularly through consumersponsored prepaid comprehensive direct service plans. Today, Group Health Association of America is representing the health interests of between 4% to 5 million individuals throughout the United States. It is an organization which is primarily concerned...
Page 1662 - In this connection it is interesting to note a statement on page 10 of the background paper prepared under the direction of the Planning Committee on Health and Medical Care for the White House Conference on Aging held in January 1961. "* * * While they (the aging) use physicians...
Page 1668 - ... of life in our cities should not be delayed and will require the efforts of private business as well as the government sector. 2. INCREASED TAXATION Last August, the President proposed a program of increased Federal taxation to reduce the budgetary deficit. At that time, the life insurance business testified before the House Ways and Means Committee in support of the need for substantial spending cuts and a temporary uniform tax surcharge on both personal and cooperate income. We believe that...