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Harvard medical and dental students, faculty, and employees will cease normal activity today to show their concern over the "death and violence which has been visited upon the American academic community in recent weeks, and those senseless deaths in Southeast Asia...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: Medical Schools Protest Slayings | 5/19/1970 | See Source »

...citizens now spend $60 billion a year on medical, dental and nursing care, drugs and appliances. Of this, the federal share is $21 billion. Yet by the best estimates, 80 million Americans lack adequate health care. For the majority, the barrier cutting them off from decent care is financial. Either they do not qualify for health insurance under any of the plans offered, or, if they qualify, they have no money to pay the premiums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insurance for the Nation's Health | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Mental and Dental. The Health Insurance Institute reports that 170 million Americans now have insurance to defray hospital expenses and receive more than $7 billion annually in benefits. But in many cases the insurance does not cover all costs, so that $6 billion still has to come out of the insured patients' pockets-and 35 million people have no protection whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insurance for the Nation's Health | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

...have "major medical" coverage, which repays them for 70% to 80% of actual outlays for virtually all medical expenses, including prescription drugs. Under whatever type of plan, coverage for the costs of mental illness is spotty and in most cases inadequate. Only 3,000,000 Americans have insurance for dental care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insurance for the Nation's Health | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

GRIFFITHS BILL. Introduced in the House by Democrat Martha Griffiths of Michigan, a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Endorsed by the A.F.L.-C.l.O., it would cover unlimited hospitalization, physicians' services including surgery, preventive care and physical checkups, required nursing-home care, rehabilitation services, dental care for all under 16, eye care and allowances for eyeglasses and prescription drugs. It retains a coinsurance feature, mainly to cut down overuse: the patient would pay $2 toward the cost of all visits to the doctor's or dentist's office after the first, which would be free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insurance for the Nation's Health | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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