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Copyright © 1999, Congressional Information
Service, Inc.
99 CIS H 341110
TITLE: Relationship
Between Health Care Costs and America's
Uninsured
CIS-NO: 99-H341-110
SOURCE:
Committee on Education and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: June 11, 1999
LENGTH:
iv+163 p. il.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-47
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-47. Hearing before the Subcom on Employer-Employee
Relations to review the relationship between increased health
insurance costs and trends in health insurance coverage,
including the decline in coverage from employer-sponsored plans.
Supplementary material (p. 49-163) includes witnesses' written statements, a
witness's written reply to Subcom question, and a submitted statement.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Health insurance
coverage and cost issues
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS. HOUSE;
HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH FACILITIES AND
SERVICES; MEDICAL ECONOMICS
99-H341-110 TESTIMONY NO: 1
June 11, 1999 p. 5-24, 53-83
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
CRIPPEN, DAN L. (Director, CBO)
SCANLON, WILLIAM J. (Director, Health
Financing and Public Health Issues, Health,
Education and Human Services Division, GAO)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Review of recent trends in
health care costs and insurance coverage; findings of studies
assessing impact of higher health care premiums on number of
insured workers; elaboration on relationship between health
care costs and number of insured individuals.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Health insurance coverage and cost issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET
OFFICE; GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
99-H341-110
TESTIMONY NO: 2 June 11, 1999 p. 24-48, 85-152
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
ANDERSON, MIKE A.
(Manager, Total Health, 3M Co.; also representing Business
Roundtable)
CASSIDY, TRACY (Principal, William M. Mercer,
Inc)
CHOLLET, DEBORAH J. (Vice President, Alpha Center)
KAHN, CHARLES N., III (President, Health
Insurance Association)
RISALVATO, SALVATORE (Owner,
Riverdale Texaco; representing National Federation of Independent Business)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Overview of 3M
Co. health care plan, citing experiences providing
health benefits to employees; findings of surveys regarding
trends in employer-sponsored health care costs (related graphs,
p. 107-113 passim); relationship between health care costs and
group insurance coverage of workers and dependents (related bibl, graphs,
tables, p. 123-128).
Factors leading to higher
health care costs, with description of employer and
health insurer efforts to contain health costs
(related graphs, p. 133-142 passim); experiences as small business owner
regarding efforts to provide health care benefits to employees;
issues related to health care costs and
uninsured worker problem.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Health insurance coverage and cost issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
MERCER, WILLIAM M.,
INC.; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; BIBLIOGRAPHIES; STATISTICAL DATA:
HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS; FAMILIES; SMALL BUSINESS
