Talk:Hill–Burton Act

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Text states: "This act responded to the first of Truman’s proposals and was designed to provide federal grants and guaranteed loans to improve the physical plant of the nation’s hospital system"

Should this read: "This act responded to the first of Truman’s proposals to improve the physical plant of the nation’s hospital system by providing federal grants and guaranteed loans"? If not, could some one clarify: the first of which proposals?

Thanks, flatrockdam 04:53, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

https://books.google.com/books?id=GOfm2RTtIp4C&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=improve+the+physical+plant+truman&source=bl&ots=vF97QDAp_l&sig=ACfU3U2MIF5j_rQXUyB5StRSY4k_fFTkfg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkqszQ0qj6AhUJlGoFHW4-B5gQ6AF6BAghEAI#v=onepage&q=improve%20the%20physical%20plant%20truman&f=false

This sentence captures a general sentiment and could be updated to exclude antiquated language, see first paragraph of linked book RubyU235 (talk) 14:51, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Probably an unnecessary sentence, bills inherently provide funding RubyU235 (talk) 14:52, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Free care
This article does not provide enough detail about the free medical care currently made available under the act. —  C M B J  04:29, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Why would we mention current free care (called uncompensated care in healthcare organizations). Yes, as of today, The IRS does have stipulations in place for not-for-profit organization to provide a certain amount of uncompensated care. RubyU235 (talk) 14:55, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Certificate of Need
This article does not discuss the subsequent history of the legislation. For instance, the Act was folded into the Public Health Service Act. Titles A and B of the 1966 amendments to Public Health Service Act provided enabling legislation for state level Certificate of Need legislation. A fairly good survey of the legislative history is given in the introduction to an article published in 2009 in the American Journal of Managed Care ((Am J Manag Care. 2009;15(10):737-744)).--Tweedye (talk) 21:35, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

I added a consequences section where this could fit nicely above or below. RubyU235 (talk) 14:56, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

It also seems this would make for a history of healthcare delivery and not necessarily relational to the HBA RubyU235 (talk) 14:59, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Like it never ends, then we get to talking about PPS when we should be talking impacts and outcomes RubyU235 (talk) 15:00, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

And if you have access to the journal… most won’t, I don’t, yet, I requested it RubyU235 (talk) 15:07, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

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