(g) AUXILIARY SERVICES.—Auxiliary services consist 
of such— 
(1) chemical, bacteriological, pathological, diag-
nostic X-ray and related laboratory services; 
(2) X-ray, radium, and related therapy; 
(3) physiotherapy; 
(4) services of optometrists; 
(5) prescribed drugs which are unusually expen-
sive; 
(6) special appliances; and 
(7) eyeglasses; 
as the Board, after consultation with the Advisory Coun-
cil, by regulation designates as auxiliary services on the 
basis of its finding that their provision under this Act is 
practicable and is essential to good health care. 
SEC. 102. AVAILABILITY OF BENEFITS. 
(a) GENERAL AVAILABILITY.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Medical services, hospital 
services, and, except as otherwise provided in sub-
section (b), all other personal health services speci-
fied in section 101 shall be made available (subject 
to section 701) as benefits to eligible individuals in 
all health-service areas within the United States as 
rapidly and as completely as possible having regard 
for the availability of the professional and technical 
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personnel and the hospital and other facilities need-
ed to provide such services. 
(2) SURVEYS OF RESOURCES AND NEEDS.—To 
this end the resources and needs of each State shall 
be surveyed and a program developed in each State 
to assure the maximum participation and use of 
health personnel and facilities in the provision of 
benefits, and to encourage improvement in the num-
ber and distribution of such personnel and facilities 
throughout the State. Additional surveys shall be 
undertaken as required, and the program in the 
State from time to time modified on the basis there-
of. 
(b) LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY.—If the Board, 
after consultation with the Advisory Council, finds that 
the personnel or facilities or funds that are or can be made 
available are inadequate to insure the provision of all serv-
ices included as dental, home-nursing, or auxiliary services 
under section 101, it may by regulation limit for a speci-
fied period the services which may be provided as benefits, 
or modify the extent to which, or the circumstances under 
which, they will be provided to eligible individuals. Any 
such restriction or limitation shall be reduced or with-
drawn as rapidly as may be practicable. In the case of 
dental services, priority in the reduction or withdrawal of 
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any such restriction or limitation shall be given to chil-
dren. 
(c) RECOMMENDATIONS.—The Board shall have the 
duty of— 
(1) studying and making recommendations as 
to needed services and facilities for the care of the 
chronic sick afflicted with physical ailments, and for 
the care of individuals afflicted with mental or nerv-
ous diseases, and as to needed provisions for the 
prevention of chronic physical diseases and of mental 
or nervous diseases; and 
(2) making reports from time to time, with rec-
ommendations as to legislation, but the first such re-
port shall be made not later than two years after 
benefits under this Act first become available. 
SEC. 103. HOW BENEFITS OBTAINED: FREE CHOICE BY PA-
TIENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Every individual eligible for per-
sonal health services available under this Act may freely 
select the physician, dentist, podiatrist, nurse, medical 
group, hospital, or other person of the individual’s choice 
to render such services, and may change such selection 
if the practitioner, medical group, hospital, or other person 
has agreed under title II to furnish the class of services 
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required and consents to furnish such services to the indi-
vidual. 
(b) PRACTITIONER
SERVICES.—General medical, 
dental, and podiatric services may be obtained by request 
made by the individual directly to the practitioner of the 
individual’s choice. 
(c) SPECIALTY SERVICES.—Specialist, home-nursing, 
hospital, and auxiliary services shall be obtained from the 
specialist, nurse, hospital, or other person of the individ-
ual’s choice, whenever the practitioner from whom the in-
dividual is receiving medical or dental services as benefits 
under this Act refers the individual for specialist, home- 
nursing, hospital, or auxiliary services upon determining 
that such services are required in the proper care of the 
individual’s particular case; or whenever, upon request of 
the individual, an administrative medical officer, upon a 
like determination, refers the individual for such services. 
(d) WAIVER OF REFERRAL.—The Board, by regula-
tion, shall dispense with the necessity of referral in cases 
of emergency, and may dispense with the necessity of re-
ferral under specified circumstances or as respects speci-
fied classes of services, or both, if it finds, after consulta-
tion with the Advisory Council, that such action will be 
conducive to the provision of a more adequate amount and 
quality of health care and will not unreasonably increase 
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