TITLE: Department of Health and Human Services FY2002 Budget Priorities

CIS-NO: 2001-H261-4  
SOURCE: Committee on the Budget. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Mar. 7, 2001  
LENGTH: iii+128 p. il.  
CONG-SESS: 107-1  
ITEM-NO: 1035-B-01; 1035-B-02  
SUDOC: Y4.B85/3:107-5  
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2001-14583  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-26970-3.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-5. Hearing to review Administration FY2002 budget request for HHS health and human services programs, including medicare, medicaid, and public welfare programs.
 
Supplementary material (p. 125-128) includes submitted statements.

CONTENT-NOTATION: HHS programs, FY2002 budget proposal

DESCRIPTORS:  
    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; HEALTH FACILITIES AND SERVICES; MEDICARE; MEDICAID; PUBLIC WELFARE PROGRAMS

01-H261-4 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Mar. 7, 2001 p. 4-47
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   THOMPSON, TOMMY G. (Secretary, HHS)
 
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
   Explanation of HHS FY2002 budget request; elaboration on HHS programs in context of FY2002 budget request.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   HHS programs, FY2002 budget proposal
 
 
01-H261-4 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Mar. 7, 2001 p. 48-78
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   RECTOR, ROBERT (Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation)
   PRIMUS, WENDELL E. (Director, Income Security, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Perspectives on welfare system spending and reform efforts, in context of Administration FY2002 budget proposal (related graphs, tables, p. 52-65 passim).
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   HHS programs, FY2002 budget proposal
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES; GOVERNMENT SPENDING; STATISTICAL DATA: PUBLIC WELFARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY; STATISTICAL DATA: GOVERNMENT
 
 
01-H261-4 TESTIMONY NO: 3     Mar. 7, 2001 p. 79-125
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   WILENSKY, GAIL R. (former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration)
   MOON, MARILYN (Senior Fellow, Urban Institute)
   SAVING, THOMAS R. (Director, Private Enterprise Research Center)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Assessment of Administration medicare and medicaid reform proposals in context of FY2002 budget request; views on Administration proposal to establish an outpatient prescription drug benefit for medicare beneficiaries; perspectives on medicare system financing reform proposals, with recommendations.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   HHS programs, FY2002 budget proposal
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   DRUGS; MEDICAL REGULATION

LOAD-DATE: November 22, 2002