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2000 CIS H 7813
TITLE:
Uninsured Americans
CIS-NO: 2000-H781-3
SOURCE: Committee on Ways and Means. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: June 15, 1999
LENGTH:
iii+79 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1028-A; 1028-B
SUDOC: Y4.W36:106-19
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2000-7994
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-19. Hearing
before the Subcom on Health to examine the relationship between
increased health insurance costs and trends in
health insurance coverage (Subcom advisory, p. 2-3).
Supplementary material (p. 71-79) includes correspondence and submitted
statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Health
insurance coverage and cost issues
DESCRIPTORS:
HEALTH INSURANCE;
HEALTH FACILITIES AND SERVICES; MEDICAL ECONOMICS
00-H781-3 TESTIMONY NO: 1 June 15, 1999 p. 7-70
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
FRONSTIN, PAUL (Senior Research Associate and Director,
Health Security and Quality Research Program, Employee Benefit
Research Institute)
ARNETT, GRACE-MARIE (President, Galen
Institute)
SHEILS, JOHN (Vice President, Lewin Group)
HOLAHAN, JOHN F. (Director, Health Policy
Center, Urban Institute)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Review of recent trends in health care
costs and insurance coverage (related graphs and tables, p. 10-40 passim);
factors contributing to high number of people without health
insurance, with recommendations; relationship between high costs of
employer-sponsored portion of health care costs and number of
insured individuals.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Health insurance coverage and cost issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
STATISTICAL DATA:
BANKING, FINANCE, AND INSURANCE; STATISTICAL DATA: HEALTH AND
VITAL STATISTICS
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001
