Medicare Reform: Modernizing Medicare and Merging Parts A and B : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, June 14, 2001, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001 - 67 páginas |
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Página 14 - PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. ELIOT L. ENGEL, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for having this hearing and continuing to examine different ways to improve Medicare for seniors.
Página 19 - Physician and medical $100 deductible each year 20 percent coinsurance for most services 50 percent coinsurance for mental health services Clinical laboratory No...
Página 14 - ... carefully put away over a lifetime so that they might enjoy dignity in their later years. No longer will young families see their own incomes, and their own hopes, eaten away simply because they are carrying out their deep moral obligations to their parents, and to their uncles, and their aunts.
Página 66 - Thank you very much. [Whereupon, at 12:47 pm, the subcommittee was adjourned.] [Additional material submitted for the record follows:] UNITED STATES...
Página 28 - I am very pleased to be here today to discuss the issue of group dental insurance for Federal employees and the proposal embodied in HR 6077, in particular.
Página 22 - Medicare Home Health Care: Prospective Payment System. Will Need Refinement as Data Become Available (GAO/HEHS-00-9, Apr.
Página 15 - OF WILLIAM J. SCANLON, DIRECTOR, HEALTH CARE ISSUES, US GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE; DONALD A.
Página 25 - From a Generation Behind to a Generation Ahead: Transforming Traditional Medicare, Final Report of the Study Panel on Fee-for-Service Medicare, National Academy of Social Insurance, Washington, DC: January 1998.
Página 43 - Good morning. I would like to thank Chairman Hhitley and other members of the Subcommittee for inviting me to testify today. My name is Richard Reid. I am Executive Vice President of the Inland Forest Resource Council (IFRC). I am here today representing both the Council and the National Forest Productions Association (NFPA). IPRC is an association representing manufacturers of solid wood products in western Montana and...
Página 22 - Health insurers today commonly design cost-sharing requirements — in the form of deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments — to ensure that beneficiaries are aware there is a cost associated with the provision of services and to encourage them to use services prudently. Ideally, cost-sharing should encourage beneficiaries to evaluate the need for discretionary care but not discourage necessary care.