Changes in Medicare: The Effects on the Central New York Community : Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, January 30, 1988 |
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Page 14 - Co., of Lexington, Mass. Senator NELSON. Mr. Nelson, I appreciate very much your taking the time to come here and present your view today on these two pending bills. Do you have a prepared statement ? Mr. NELSON. I do, yes. sir. STATEMENT OF ROBERT NELSON, DIRECTOR, PUBLIC SECTOR PROJECTS, RAYTHEON CO., LEXINGTON, MASS. Mr. NELSON. Thank you, sir. I appreciate being invited. It is a subject of great personal...
Page 25 - Efforts to limit access to Medicare, such as an increase in the age of eligibility, are not desirable.
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Page 30 - ... occur at the expense of patient care. Those responding to the survey clearly viewed pressures to discharge patients early as detrimental to the quality of patient care.
Page 46 - ... projects which will protect the existing natural resources such as ground water in this case, subsoil water, we would be lucky. The reaction of the voters there, however, shows that this is not an easy thing to do. They needed the $300 million for one county. This is tough and the voters voted it down. I think that we have got to do everything we can to encourage and keep the momentum and the awareness. It is very easy for the people to slide back into a feeling of complacency.
Page 56 - She gradually improved so that she could sit on the edge of the bed, and then was able to stand and then pivot into a wheelchair.