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Blue Cross Pays the Bills
Seldin, Joel | July 14, 1969 issue

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Nearly 1 million nonprofessional hospital workers in this country's voluntary and private hospitals are so poorly paid that if they work five days a week for a full year, and if they are the sole support of a family, its annual income will be below the official level of poverty. If some union or group of unions were to attempt a large scale organizing campaign and if the hospitals were to oppose the unions with large and expensive anti-union campaigns, the employers could recover much of this expense from the Medicare, Medicaid and Blue Cross health insurance programs. The situation is a classic example of how the social advances of one era can contribute to social problems later.

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MEDICARE; HOSPITALS -- Employees; HEALTH insurance; MEDICAL policy; SOCIAL problems; UNITED States
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