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2000 CIS S 43119
TITLE: Ensuring
Access to Affordable Health Care
CIS-NO: 2000-S431-19
SOURCE: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-556
DATE: May 31, 2000
LENGTH: iii+71 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1043-A; 1043-B
SUDOC: Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.106-556
SUMMARY:
Hearing in Montpelier, Vt., to
examine efforts to ensure access to affordable health care,
focusing on the Vermont health care system.
Supplementary material (p. 70-71) includes a submitted statement.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Vt health care
system, affordability and access issues
DESCRIPTORS:
VERMONT; HEALTH FACILITIES AND
SERVICES; MEDICAL ECONOMICS; MONTPELIER, VT.
00-S431-19 TESTIMONY NO: 1
May 31, 2000 p. 3-44
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
BRANDENBURG, MAXINE N. (President and CEO,
Vermont Business Roundtable)
DRISCOLL, FRANK X.
(President, Decision Support, Inc)
REYNOLDS, DAVID A.
(Executive Director, Northern Counties Health Care)
BEAUREGARD, JOHN L. (health care
consumer)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Views
on and recommendations for improvements to Vermont health care
system; perspectives on health care affordability and access in
Vermont (related correspondence, p. 33-37).
INSERTION:
-- Reynolds, D. A., "Assessment of the Economic Viability
of Community Health Centers: A Comparison of Cost, Utilization,
and Quality in CHCS and HMOs" 1992, with bibliography (p. 20-32).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Vt health care
system, affordability and access issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE; MEDICAL ECONOMICS;
HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; COMMUNITY
HEALTH SERVICES; BIBLIOGRAPHIES
00-S431-19 TESTIMONY NO: 2 May 31, 2000 p. 45-70
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
MICHL,
KEITH W. (Dr.) (Physician, Dorset Village Health Center,
Dorset, Vt.; representing American College of Physicians-American Society of
Internal Medicine)
WOOD, NANCY E. (Manager, Home, Farm
& Garden Research Associates)
TOFFERI, LEIGH J.
(Director, Government, Public, and Community Relations, Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Vermont)
ARNETT, GRACE-MARIE (President, Galen
Institute)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Challenges facing public and private
health insurance systems in Vermont; concerns regarding problem
of uninsured in Vermont and nationwide, with recommendations.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Vt
health care system, affordability and access issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF
PHYSICIANS-AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNAL MEDICINE; HEALTH
INSURANCE
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001 
