Panel retains funds for nurses in manpower bill.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Education, Nursing↗
Biomedical subjects
K Rittinger
Publications and source records attributed to K Rittinger.
Congressman speaks out for society's needy.
Representative Leland, a pharmacist raised in Houston's ghetto, uses health subcommittee post to draw attention to the needs of his constituents.
Child↗
AHA offers remedies for fiscally troubled city hospitals.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
American Hospital Association↗
Congressman gains visibility in health field.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Cost Control↗
Manpower a key health issue for '80.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Health Occupations↗
Report from Washington: the hospital cost containment issue.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Cost Control↗
How the Partnership for Action helps hospitals wield clout.
The AHA/state hospital association Partnership for Action provides grass-roots input to members of Congress from hospital representatives throughout the United States. This article describes how the Partnership was instrumental in last year's defeat of the Carter Administration's hospital cost containment legislation.
Interinstitutional Relations↗
OTA studies estimates of physician supply in 1990.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Forecasting↗
Report from Washington: Annual Hospital Report.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Accounting↗
Cost cap bill topped agenda in first session of 96th Congress.
Congress took up amendments to Medicare and Medicaid programs, extension of health planning law, funding for nurse training, and other issues during its first session.
Cost Control↗
Social worker gains seat on health panel.
Rep. Barbara Mikulski deals with health care issues in terms of the people affected. She is concerned about the impact of cost containment legislation on uncompensated charity care.
Allied Health Personnel↗
Action mixed as Congress moves on cost issue.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Cost Control↗
The big ones in Congress--health and taxes.
Congressman John Duncan endorses the concept of flexibility in the delivery of health services/He believes the bulk of contributions to health care should be made by industry.
Humans↗
Hospitals must publicize VE, Rep. Marks says.
Representative Marks believes that hospitals should accelerate the VE program and that they should publicize their progress via television.
Cost Control↗
Sponsor of Texas health laws brings expertise to Congress.
An opponent of government regulation of hospital costs, Rep. Bob Gammage of Texas thinks that Congress should have the right to veto the triggering of mandatory cost controls. It makes no sense, he says, to single out a particular industry for what, in effect, would be wage and price controls, especially because hospitals don't control what they buy, in terms of goods and services.
Costs and Cost Analysis↗
Ohio congressman has keen grasp of health care issues.
A hospital trustee himself, Rep. Willis Gradison Jr. (R-OH) believes that mandatory cost controls would weaken the financial capacity of hospitals, greatly reduce their access to the capital market, and ultimately lead to hospitals' ap,lying to the federal government for direct aid in order to operate. It does not make sense, he says, to put cost controls on hospitals and not on other segments of the economy.
Delivery of Health Care↗