National Health Insurance: Public Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 |
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... universal coverage , under one system . Provide for comprehensive health care services , including preventive care as well as diagnosis , treatment and rehabilitation . Provide payment in full for all costs of covered services 63.
... universal coverage , under one system . Provide for comprehensive health care services , including preventive care as well as diagnosis , treatment and rehabilitation . Provide payment in full for all costs of covered services 63.
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... covered services , including the extraordinary costs of catastrophic illness . Finance all covered services through a trust fund based on payroll taxes and general revenues , administered by the Federal Government . Contain strong ...
... covered services , including the extraordinary costs of catastrophic illness . Finance all covered services through a trust fund based on payroll taxes and general revenues , administered by the Federal Government . Contain strong ...
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... COVERED PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR FISCAL YEAR 1978 AND FISCAL YEAR 1982 ( ASSUMING PROGRAMS IN FULL OPERATION ) In billions of dollars ] No programs S. 3 / H.R . 21 Administration Catastrophic FISCAL YEAR 1978 Total expenditures ...
... COVERED PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR FISCAL YEAR 1978 AND FISCAL YEAR 1982 ( ASSUMING PROGRAMS IN FULL OPERATION ) In billions of dollars ] No programs S. 3 / H.R . 21 Administration Catastrophic FISCAL YEAR 1978 Total expenditures ...
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... covered services , including the extra- ordinary costs of catastrophic illness . Finance all covered services through a Trust Fund based on payroll taxes and general revenues , administered by the federal government . Contain strong ...
... covered services , including the extra- ordinary costs of catastrophic illness . Finance all covered services through a Trust Fund based on payroll taxes and general revenues , administered by the federal government . Contain strong ...
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... covered . All those things are incentives to unnecessary cost expenditures . Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI . Thank you ; Mr. Duncan will inquire . Mr. DUNCAN . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . I would also like to welcome Mr. Woodcock to the committee ...
... covered . All those things are incentives to unnecessary cost expenditures . Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI . Thank you ; Mr. Duncan will inquire . Mr. DUNCAN . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . I would also like to welcome Mr. Woodcock to the committee ...
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Page 137 - The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.
Page 238 - Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which medical services are provided...
Page 7 - Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one in a million is able to diagnose.
Page 165 - Act under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and shall, with the approval of the Secretary, prescribe such regulations as may be necessary for the administration of this Act.
Page 57 - That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity.
Page 62 - Yet. the United States is the only industrialized Nation in the world that does not have a national health program for its people.
Page 146 - ... data base development, evaluation and demonstration, and technical assistance in providing leadership and direction to a comprehensive national health education program on the prevention of disease, disability, premature death, and undesirable and unnecessary health problems.
Page 387 - State or local agency knows that a third party has such a legal liability such agency will treat such legal liability as a resource of the individual on whose behalf the care and services are made available for purposes...
Page 238 - ... this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which medical services are provided, or over the selection, tenure, or compensation of any officer or employee of any institution, agency, or person...