DRIVE STARTS ON INSURANCE BILL TODAY

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2004
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• Publication Date: January 7, 1959
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throla,of basic insurance cost)
would be paid via payroll de-
ductions.
Counted as dependents
would be the spouses of in-
sured employes; unmarried
children under 19; children
under 23 enrolled full-time in
college and dependent on the
parent for at least half of
their support; and disabled
unmarried children, who,
since 19 or earlier, have been
dependent on the parent for
at least half of their support.
BENEFITS
.The Johnson-More bill also
would benefit a large num-
ber of retired employes-
those still carrying acceptable
h e a l t h insurance coverage
which went into effect at
least one year before they re-
tired.
.By JOHN CRAMER
Sen. Olin Joh}1,4t nn, (D., S. C.), the Post Office and
Civil Service ommittee chairman, and Rep. James
XoiajAWL (D., La.) will lead the fight for Govern-
ment-sponsored health-hospital insurance for Federal
employes and their families.
Soon after the new Con- or for any total of 120 days
gress convened today, they in periods separated by 90
planned to introduce a new days or less.
AFL-CIO sponsored bill call All medical and surgical
ing for: services during hospitaliza-
1. Basic hospital insurance tion.
for employes and their fam All necessary out patient
flies with Government paying the two-thirds of the cost. dcare left e heohospital.
2. Major medical insurance
to pick up where basic insur- The bill's major medical In-
ance leaves off. Government surance would cover 75 per
would pay the entire cost. cent of all medical, surgical
and hospital expenses in.
It was Sen. Johnson and curred after basic insurance
Rep. Morrison who led last had been exhausted.
year's successful drive for EXPENSES
postal and Classified (white
collar) Federal employe pay First, however, the employe.
certain
raises. would have to pay
"deductible" expenses, grad-Dem Mr. on tC heHouse e on is ServNo. ice 2
Post t Of. Of Com- -- uated according to salary.
Tice on
and Civil Those making under $6000
ice
mittee. would pay $100.
GENEROUS Those making $6000 thru
$10,999 would pay $200.
Their new bill admittedly or
Is a generous one, and un- Those making $11,000
doubtedly will be pared down more would pay $300.
before finally clearing Con? Government's share of the
gress. combined basic-major medi-
Its basic hospital Insurance cal cost would be limited to
would offer full 120-day cov- $2.50 per bi-weekly pay pe-
erage. It would fully insure riod for an Individual em--
the employe and his depend- ploye, and loo $withfdepenld-
ents against: for an employe
ents.
? All costs of hospital care,
in semi-private accommeda- The employe's share (ono-
tions, for any 120 days of
continuous hospitalization (Continued an Page 41)
They would continue to pay
the rates they now pay. But
they would get the full bene-
fit of the new program, in-
cluding its major medical
futures.
All costs of the extra In-
surance provided them would
lie borne by the Government.
The bill would give em-
ployes a free choice of four
different types of basic in-
surance:
1. The so-called service type,
provided by-Blue Cross, Blue
Shield and similar organiza-
tions.
2. The cash indemnity type
provided by insurance com-
panies.
3. Plans sponsored or un-
derwritten by Federal em-
ploye organizations.
4. Group practice prepay-
ment plans, such as the
Health Insurance Plan of
Greater New York.
In addition, employes would
have the annual option of
transferring from one plan
to another.
AFL-CIO unions explain
that this would mean the em-
ployes would "not become the
permanent captives" of any
single type of plan.
And the Government would
not be put in the position of
promoting one type of insur-
er at the expense of another.
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