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Show prepsGd for. qeIsM ear pofaifs erage of home health care services to 25 states where that type of care is prohibited. prohi-bited. Hatch's bill is based on the idea that many of the country's elderly people who need regular medical attention atten-tion do not need hospitalization hospitaliza-tion or care in a nursing home. It is possible to conduct a care program for the homebound aged which is The incoming chairman of the Senate's Labor and Human Resources Com-m Com-m ittee wants to cut the price and improve the quality of health care by encouraging treatment of ambulatory patients, pa-tients, particularly aged people, pe-ople, in their own homes. The Community Home Health He-alth Services Act by Sen. Orrln Hatch would expand Medicare and Medicaid cov- more effective, more humane hu-mane and nearly always less costly than a comparable nursing home program. Section 1861 prohibits full participation of the proprietary, propri-etary, taxpaying providers of home health services In the program unless the states have licensing requirements re-quirements for such programs. pro-grams. Twenty five states do not license, including Utah. This denies freedom of choice especially in small- |