National Healthcare Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] National Healthcare Act - Title I: Findings and Declaration of Purpose - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to improve the organization, delivery, and financing of health care for all Americans by increasing health personnel, promoting ambulatory care, strengthening health planning, establishing national standards of health care benefits, encouraging provisions of such benefits through comprehensive health care insurance, and by assisting persons of low income or in poor health to secure that insurance. Title II: Provisions To Increase The Supply And Improve The Distribution Of Health Care Personnel - Allows a medical student to borrow the full cost of tuition, fees, and reasonable amounts for room, board, books, supplies, and other related costs. Provides that the loan will be forgiven at the rate of 20 percent a year in return for practice in an area found by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the appropriate State comprehensive planning agency to be in need of physicians, optometrists, or dentists. Authorizes $100 million a year for fiscal years 1973, 1974, and 1975 for this purpose. Grants loans to student nurses covering the full cost of tuition, fees, and…