时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


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The Hill–Burton Act – on Today's Congressional Moment. Few people remember this today, but universal health–care was on the national agenda six decades ago. President Harry 1 Truman tried, and failed, to convince the Congress to pass universal coverage 2. What he got instead was the Hill–Burton Act, the federal government's first venture into building hospitals. The act is named for its two sponsors in the Senate, Lister Hill, a democrat 3 from Alabama — whose physician father was the first American to suture a human heart — and Harold Burton, a republican from Ohio. They recognized that existing hospitals had been neglected during the years of the Depression and World War II, and that there was a desperate need for clinics and small hospitals, particularly in poor, rural areas. Their bill was path–breaking. It required facilities getting federal funds to provide medical services free or at reduced rates for people unable to pay. The measure also increased access to health care for Americans at a time when private capital for investment in hospitals was scarce. Over the years, the act pumped billions of dollars into projects and equipment in 4,000 communities around the country. Especially if you live in a rural county, odds 4 are good that the hospital or clinic you visit today was built using Hill–Burton funds. STANDARD CLOSING: This is Lee Hamilton. Congressional decisions impact all our lives. To find out more about how Congress works, or to get involved in your government, visit the Center On Congress website at congress.indiana.edu.



1 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
2 coverage
n.报导,保险范围,保险额,范围,覆盖
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
3 democrat
n.民主主义者,民主人士;民主党党员
  • The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
  • About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后,他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
4 odds
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别
  • The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
  • Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗?
学英语单词
all-weld test piece
allantoid opening
allenyl
analgosedation
arteflene
baptorrhea
Bearhead
betoloside
biostereometrics
body length
borewells
c-a-t
calcaneal tubercle
capsttan
cdev
chert
clean-up demineralizer
cocto-precipetin
colloidal particles
color-coded
contemporary carbon
continuous sand blast apparatus
create a precedent for
dependent quantity
diethylene diamine
Dirac fields
directory service (Internet)
double-skinned
dynamic coherence check
edubabble
electroacoustic thermometer
elimination chromatin (seiler 1914)
engleimous
epidermoid carcinoma of breast
fatigue monitoring
FTNB
Game-park
ganglia of facial nerve
hard dough stage
hit it up
ineffectualness
international media
ionization foaming
irreversible steering assembly
Kionga
leading-edge radiator
lick-spit
liquid-junctions
low-noise propeller
march discipline
masio
megalopsychy
meta refresh
millerhills
motor mass fraction
My Yen
National Standard Association
nicolaus
no paid allotment
nonanxiety
nonas
nonattended substation
noneconomic compulsion
operis
optics electron
passive location
perigalactic
point of force concurrence
porous polymer bead
primary leach
printed form
proceed down the river
pseudaletia unipunctas
pseudoperidium
pyoureter
radial heat flow method
rolan
safety extinguishing fire
self-observation
senior first engineer
shaking channel
Sker
social democracy
social welfare
stiff-plastic making
strip cutting machine
stroke font
success of science argument for realism
tape controlled operating
telial
Tiska, Mont
top level men
trash ice
trephone
Tween-20
underprediction
Villaseco de los Reyes
waxed impergnation
wb (wide band)
weak type
Wegyu
Yërmitsa