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Precious Commodity. Probably the only thing that can prevent its getting done would be an overwhelming upsurge of war weariness within the U.S. McNamara carries in his pocket a recent editorial from the London Economist pointing out that the President is in danger of losing a precious commodity-"patient public support for the whole idea of a limited war." Agreed Maxwell Taylor: "This country is being tested as it never has been since the Civil War. We impatient Americans like the Hollywood solution where the good guy hits the bad guy, and it's all over. We want...
...second half of Medicare, or Part B, is the voluntary insurance system whereby over-65 subscribers pay a flat $3 a month, and the Federal Government matches this with another $3, to reimburse the patient for 80% of his doctors' bills in any given year (after a $50 deduction), plus other charges not covered by Part A. No fewer than 17.3 million of the 19.1 million eligibles elected to participate in Part B. In 15 months, those participants have received $800 million in reimbursement for physicians' and related services...
...major difficulty with Part B is that physicians have a choice as to how they will collect. They may insist, as the American Medical Association and other doctors' organizations recommend, on billing the patient directly for whatever charge they judge proper. The patient must then pay the bill, get it receipted, and send it to a contractor (it may be Blue Shield or an insurance company), which is acting as the Government's middleman for the area. When the contractor is satisfied that the claim is legitimate, it refunds the patient 80% of what is locally considered...
...plan. It also left it to the states to decide which of their citizens should be classed as indigent or medically indigent and entitled to benefits. If a state wanted to tap the U.S. Treasury, it had to provide coverage for a minimum of five essential services-in-patient and out-patient hospital care, doctors' care, X rays, lab tests and nursing-home benefits. Optional frills included home health services, dental care, eyeglasses, drugs, physiotherapy, private-duty nursing, podiatry, hearing aids, chiropractic and even the services of naturopaths. When a plan was finally approved, the federal handout was scaled...
...Szasz writes that "Farnsworth is plainly aware that the college administration, which pays the psychiatrist, would not tolerate being left in the dark about students." He quotes Dr. Farnsworth as saying, "If he (the dean) calls the psychiatrist, asks about the student, and is told that the confidential patient-physician relationship prevents any comment, he is not going to be very happy about the situation...