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thousands of lives in every community in this land.
“Medicare has paid the expenses incurred in 10.6 million hospital stays and 45 million medical bills,” he said, “and more than 1 million elderly persons have received posthospital care in nursing homes and in their own homes.” Payments under the hospital insurance program totaled $6.3 billion for the 2 year period and a total of $2.1 billion was paid out under the supplementary medical insurance program. According to Robert M. Ball, Commissioner of Social Security, 19.7 million older people 65 and over, just about everyone in that age group is now covered under the basic hospital insurance part of Medicare, Ball said, and 18.6 million of them, or 95 percent, have enrolled in the voluntary medical insurance part that helps pay doctor bills and a wide variety of other medical expenses in and out of the hospital. “Because of Medicare,” he said, “many thousands of older people, who might have deferred or gone without care - and possibly died •• have been able to afford treatment. Millions have the
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