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 2 |
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Page 634 - Section 223 (d) (1) (2) (3) defines disability as the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.
Page 834 - 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 man in a million is able to diagnose.
Page 715 - 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 644 - disability" means — (A) inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months...
Page 698 - It shall be the duty of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to protect the health of the domestic animals of the State, to determine and employ the most efficient and practical means for the prevention, suppression, control...
Page 723 - American College of Surgeons, the American Hospital Association, and the American Medical Association.
Page 628 - You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Page 742 - American medicine, the pride of the nation for many years, stands now on the brink of chaos.
Page 834 - Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency.
Page 772 - What is good for the goose is not good for the gander.