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“The cost of the program was $35 million under estimates made last year,” she said. “Yet without the Price Commission limit on physicians’ fees, it would have been necessary to increase the premium to at least $6 a month.”
The medical insurance part of Medicare paid $2 billion in benefits on behalf of 9-1/2 million people in fiscal 1971. Almost everyone 65 and over is enrolled — about 20 million people, according to Mrs. Crumpton.
95.5%