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John Alexander McMahon, president of the American Hospital Association, calls the proposal so horribly complex that it would be "unworkable." Actually, a few of the bill's supporters, including Senator Kennedy, agree that there is a problem. Kennedy's subcommittee on health last week modified the Carter plan by increasing the voluntary limit to 10.9%, more carefully defining the conditions under which a hospital could be exempt from mandatory controls, and setting Dec. 31, 1984, as the date when controls would end, unless Congress acted to extend them...
KENNEDY. His revised plan, announced Last Monday, would require that all Americans, regardless of income or age, be covered. He has backed away from his earlier advocacy of making the Government the basic insurer. Instead, he would inject competition into the scheme by letting people choose whether they wanted to be protected by a consortium of commercial insurance companies, by Blue Cross-Blue Shield, or by joining independent group health plans or health maintenance organizations (H.M.O.s). Employers would be liable for the premium payments, estimated at $11.4 billion a year more than they pay now, but they could require workers...
...bills that can bankrupt even a moderately well-off family. He has suggested, for example, that payments begin after $2,000 in doctor's fees plus 60 days of hospitalization. At minimum room rates, that would be a "deductible" of at least $12,000. The $3 billion-a-year plan would be financed entirely by employers. Long wants the plan to be fully enacted as soon as possible...
CARTER. The details are still being worked out by HEW, which has taken so long on the plan that a White House aide reports: "Carter is pissed off with Califano." Now expected to be made public later this year, the scheme would expand Medicare and Medicaid benefits for the aged and the poor. In addition, it would give those unprotected by company or public plans a chance of buying insurance at a "reasonable" cost, although that figure has not yet been determined. This insurance, subsidized by the Government, would provide a "core benefit package," including hospital and physician services...
...White House and Kennedy contend that public sentiment is building irresistibly for the eventual enactment of some kind of universal health insurance plan. The present programs vary wildly but have one thing in common: the costs keep rising...