Health America: Affordable Health Care for All Americans : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health for Families and the Uninsured of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, on S. 1227, East Lansing, MI, September 6, 1991, Volume 4 |
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Page 145 - Such a survey tends to focus on three or four areas of interest relating to the care and treatment of the mentally ill, the prevention of mental illness, and the improvement of the mental health of the public generally.
Page 179 - All individuals have a right to high quality health care. The health care system should collect, analyze, and disseminate information about provider performance, health care outcomes, and the appropriateness and effectiveness of health care services. Quality assurance programs, such as peer review and professional licensure, should be strengthened and coordinated. 4. All individuals should have a reasonable choice of health care providers. Cost containment efforts should not unreasonably limit choice...
Page 146 - Health provides a picture of the breadth and impact of mental illness in the United States, particularly among the working age population. — In any six month period, approximately 29.4 million adult...
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Page 146 - Benefits include reimbursement for inpatient tuberculosis and psychiatric hospital services — with a lifetime limit of 190 days of care in a psychiatric hospital — and emergency inpatient care in a nonparticipating hospital.
Page 89 - Federal standards for health insurance sold in the small group market would remove barriers to access to group health insurance by eliminating pre-existing condition exclusions and denials of coverage on the basis of health status; promote equity in insurance premiums by moving rate-setting toward a community-rated system; and improve the affordability of coverage for small employers by preempting state benefit laws and ensuring access to managed care.
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Page 93 - ... handled by the states; too many people would move in and out of state systems and end up with conflicting and overlapping coverage. The federal government is also best adapted to solving the double problem of controlling rapidly rising health costs and providing health insurance to the whole population. The US health care system is the most expensive in the world, now consuming more than one-eighth of everything the nation produces, but it does not provide commensurate benefits. Millions of people...