Public Welfare Act Contains Much Of Taft Health Plan
Washington March 10 Taft plan to aid the needy would be largely absorbed by the Truman administration Public Welfare Act of 1949 presented to Congress If enacted it would undermine Taft s proposal covering poor people unable to pay doctor bills and weaken the administration s national health insurance aim Hearings on the reform move loom with potential broad impact from the act and its echoes in health policy.
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Taft
Peter Edson
NEA
Washington
Robert A. Taft
Congress
Gress
National health aid plan eyed by Doughton committee
The House Ways and Means Committee considers a Public Welfare Act defining assistance as cash and medical aid for the aged, indigent, dependent children and the blind. The federal government would fund a large share of state medical care costs, varying by state wealth, with 75 percent aid for poor states and 40 percent for richer ones. The plan could reshape national health insurance prospects and change how medical payments reach patients.
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Robert L. Doughton
House
Ways and Means
Doughton Committee
Arthur J. Altmeyer
U. S. Social Security Board
Indies
West Virginia
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