National Health Program, 1949, Part 2

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Page 1061 - The aims of the National Health Service were set out in the opening sentences of the National Health Service Act of 1946: (1) It shall be the duty of the Minister of Health to promote the establishment in England and Wales of a comprehensive health service designed to secure improvement in the physical and mental health of the people of England and Wales and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness...
Page 741 - Such standards shall provide equitably (and, to the extent practicable, on the basis of objective criteria) for variations between projects or classes of projects on the basis of the economic status of areas and other relevant factors. No such standards shall provide for a Federal share of more than 66% per centum or less than 33% per centum of the cost of construction of any project.
Page 919 - This statement is submitted on behalf of the American Life Convention and the Life Insurance Association of America.
Page 820 - Workers, American Association of Medical Social Workers, American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, American Association of Social Workers, Association for the Study of Community Organization, National Association of School Social Workers, and the Social Work Research Group.
Page 739 - The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Social Security Board, State plans for aid to the blind.
Page 1221 - The principle of contributory health insurance should be the basic method of financing medical care for the large majority of the American people in order to remove the burden of unpredictable sickness costs, abolish the economic barrier to adequate medical services and avoid the indignities of a "means test.
Page 741 - Labor may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as he may from time to time...
Page 741 - State agency; (10) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Surgeon General may from time to time reasonably require, and will keep such records and afford such access thereto as the Surgeon General may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports...
Page 1104 - In December 1945 the house of delegates had instructed the AMA trustees and the council "to proceed as promptly as possible with the development of a specific national health program, with emphasis on the Nation-wide organization of locally administered prepayment medical plans sponsored by medical societies.
Page 741 - I appear before you today in behalf of the employees of the custodial service of the postal field service in the 48 States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia...