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1 CIS S 4315
TITLE:
Health Care Coverage: 45 Million Uninsured and
Counting
CIS-NO: 2001-S431-5
SOURCE: Committee on
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-775
DATE: Oct. 4, 2000
LENGTH: iii+102 p. il.
CONG-SESS:
106-2
ITEM-NO: 1043-A; 1043-B
SUDOC:
Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.106-775
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2001-8337
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-26406-0.
SUMMARY:
Hearing
to review health insurance coverage trends and to examine
strategies to expand availability of affordable health
insurance.
Supplementary material (p. 81-102) includes submitted
statements and witnesses' written replies to Committee questions.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Health insurance
coverage trends and availability expansion strategies
DESCRIPTORS:
HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH FACILITIES AND
SERVICES; MEDICAL ECONOMICS
01-S431-5 TESTIMONY NO: 1
Oct. 4, 2000 p. 3-56
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
DE POSADA, ROBERT GARCIA (Executive Director, Hispanic
Business Roundtable)
MUNRO, SARA R.
(health care consumer)
FRONSTEIN, PAUL
(Director, Health Security and Quality Research Program,
Employee Benefit Research Institute)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Recommendations to address health
insurance coverage issues, in light of problems of Hispanic Americans with
access to affordable coverage; review of health insurance
coverage trends and outlook (related graphs, p. 16-28).
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Health insurance coverage
trends and availability expansion strategies
TESTIMONY
DESCRIPTORS:
HISPANIC BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE; STATISTICAL
DATA: HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS; HISPANIC AMERICANS
01-S431-5 TESTIMONY NO: 2 Oct. 4,
2000 p. 57-81, 86-102
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
FRYHOFER, SANDRA A. (Dr.) (President, American College of
Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM))
FEDER, JUDITH (Dean, Policy Studies, Georgetown Public
Policy Institute, Georgetown University)
ARNETT,
GRACE-MARIE (President, Galen Institute)
GREALY, MARY R.
(President, Healthcare Leadership Council)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Suggestions for policy actions to expand
availability of affordable health insurance; relationship
between health care coverage and insurance costs, with
recommendations; need to establish tax credit program to assist the
uninsured in obtaining health care coverage;
views on policies to expand worker access to employer-based
health insurance.
INSERTION:
-- ACP-ASIM, "Providing Access to Care for All Americans:
A Statement of Core Policy Principles" approved Oct. 28, 2000 (p. 88-97).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Health
insurance coverage trends and availability expansion strategies
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF
PHYSICIANS/AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNAL MEDICINE; TAX INCENTIVES AND SHELTERS;
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
LOAD-DATE: January 31, 2002
