Carter's Health Care Plan

WASHINGTON--A draft of President Carter's proposed health plan provides health care for individuals not now covered by private benefit plans, sources said yesterday.

The proposed plan. labeled HealthCare, would pay at least 75 per cent of the cost of all hospital bills, physician's fees, prescription drugs and outpatient services. Individual patients would not have to pay more than a "limit" of $1500 a year.

The plan would benefit the poor, unemployed and elderly not now eligible for publicly funded health care and unable to pay the premiums of private plans. HealthCare would give them free care and the cost of their coverage would be paid by the government, the draft proposes.

General tax revenues would support the estimated $30 billion cost of the plan.

The present draft health plan appears to be the consensus of the Carter administration. "This is the only option now before the president," sources said yesterday. However, the plan is not scheduled to begin until mid 1983.