Administration Proposals Relating to VA Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, June 20, 1985 |
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Administration facilities administrative costs Affairs Alan Cranston ALVAREZ appropriate benefits bill Blue Cross Blue Shield Association BRIGGS Chairman MURKOWSKI clause Committee legislation Committee on Veterans CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressional Budget Office copayment cost containment Court Cross and Blue current law deductible domiciliary effect eligibility employers enacted ENCLOSURE episode estimate Federal Fifth Amendment fiscal year 1986 FOGEL FTEE GAO's GORDON GRONVALL health insurance health-care health-plan contract hospital or nursing impact implementation income increase incurred inpatient insurance carrier LEHNHARD LIBRARY OF CONGRESS McCarran-Ferguson Act means test medical services Medicare million non-service number of veterans nursing home outpatient paragraph patient payment pension percent policyholders premiums private health insurance private insurers private sector programs proposed legislation Puerto Rico pursuant QUANDT Question recovery regulations savings Senator CRANSTON Senator MITCHELL specific subparagraph subsection third party third-party reimbursement title 38 United utilization review VA hospitals VA's Veterans Administration Webb's Fabulous Pharmacies
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Page 145 - Congress with reference to the regulation of the business of insurance. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress hereby declares that the continued regulation and taxation by the several States of the business of insurance is in the public interest, and that silence on the part of the Congress shall not be construed to impose any barrier to the regulation or taxation of such business by the several States.
Page 386 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE RY THE BILL, AS REPORTED In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic...
Page 141 - To so hold would preclude development and fix a city forever in its primitive conditions. There must be progress, and if in its march private interests are in the way, they must yield to the good of the community.
Page 247 - The Fifth Amendment's guarantee that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation was designed to bar Government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole.
Page 399 - The veteran is eligible to receive medical assistance under a State plan approved under title XIX of the Social Security Act...
Page 139 - Fifth Amendment's guarantee [is] designed to bar Government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole,
Page 146 - The business of insurance, and every person engaged therein, shall be subject to the laws of the several States which relate to the regulation or taxation of such business. (b) No Act of Congress shall be construed to invalidate, impair, or supersede any law enacted by any State for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance...
Page 207 - taking" may more readily be found when the interference with property can be characterized as a physical invasion by government than when interference arises from some public program adjusting the benefits and burdens of economic life to promote the common good.
Page 386 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW In compliance with subsection (4) of rule XXIX of the Standing Rules of the Senate, changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman) : FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE ACT • »***** SEC.
Page 144 - s , the clerk of the court of a county court in Florida appropriated the interest earned on Webb's funds which the clerk had held during court proceedings between Webb's and its creditors. There was no dispute that the original funds were private property; the question was whether the interest which had accumulated on the funds, held temporarily by the county clerk, belonged to the county. The Supreme Court had no trouble in considering this an (obviously) uncompensated taking which violated the...