advisory council to study coverage of the disabled under title xviii of the social security act

advisory council to study coverage of the disabled under title xviii of the social security act Sec. 140. (a) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall appoint an Advisory Council to study the need for coverage of the disabled under the health insurance program of title XVIII of the Social Security Act. 81 Stat. 855 (b) The Council shall be appointed by the Secretary during 1968 without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service and shall consist of 12 persons who shall, to the extent possible, represent organizations of employers and employees in equal numbers, and represent self-employed persons and the public. (c) The Council is authorized to engage such technical assistance, including actuarial services, as may be required to carry out its functions, and the Secretary shall, in addition, make available to such Council such secretarial, clerical, and other assistance and such actuarial and other pertinent data prepared by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as it may require to carry out such functions. (d) Members of the Council, while serving on the business of the Council (inclusive of travel time), shall receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day and, while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government employed intermittently. (e) The Council shall make findings on the unmet need of the disabled for health insurance, on the costs involved in providing the disabled with insurance protection to cover the cost of hospital and medical services, and on the ways of financing this insurance. The Council shall submit a report of its findings to the Secretary not later than January 1, 1969, together with recommendations on how such protection should be financed and, if such financing is to be accomplished through the trust funds established under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, on the extent to which each of such trust funds should bear the cost of such financing. Such report shall thereupon be transmitted to the Congress and to the Boards of Trustees created by sections 1817(b) and 1841(b) of the Social Security Act. After the date of transmittal to the Congress of the report, the Council shall cease to exist.