Costs and Delivery of Health Services to Older Americans: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly of the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First [and Second] Session[s].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 |
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Page 54
... concerned about the health care needs of the elderly . We are just as desperately concerned with unnecessary , un- realistic , " runaway costs " which are forcing up the price of health care , not only to elderly people themselves , but ...
... concerned about the health care needs of the elderly . We are just as desperately concerned with unnecessary , un- realistic , " runaway costs " which are forcing up the price of health care , not only to elderly people themselves , but ...
Page 55
... concerned even if they are prepared , in their desperation , to go the welfare route . The truth is that the deductible and coinsurance features of the medicare program merely discriminate against the elderly poor who need the most help ...
... concerned even if they are prepared , in their desperation , to go the welfare route . The truth is that the deductible and coinsurance features of the medicare program merely discriminate against the elderly poor who need the most help ...
Page 56
... concerned with it . If physicians ' costs continue to go higher , if hospital costs continue to go higher , if insurance finally gets to the limits of what it can cover , then should it not be as it once was , that people who are 65 ...
... concerned with it . If physicians ' costs continue to go higher , if hospital costs continue to go higher , if insurance finally gets to the limits of what it can cover , then should it not be as it once was , that people who are 65 ...
Page 58
... concerned that in many cases there has been a relaxation of the conditions of par- ticipation in some institutions . Introduction of the highly elastic con- cept of " substantial compliance " with conditions of participation gives cause ...
... concerned that in many cases there has been a relaxation of the conditions of par- ticipation in some institutions . Introduction of the highly elastic con- cept of " substantial compliance " with conditions of participation gives cause ...
Page 72
... concerned with risk factors which operate before disease begins . Ideally this is the best time to intervene and interrupt the beginning of the disease process . This is the time when we seek to modify health habits and adjust the ...
... concerned with risk factors which operate before disease begins . Ideally this is the best time to intervene and interrupt the beginning of the disease process . This is the time when we seek to modify health habits and adjust the ...
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