TITLE: Creating a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Assessing Efforts To Help America's Low-Income Seniors

CIS-NO: 2002-H361-46  
SOURCE: Committee on Energy and Commerce. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Apr. 17, 2002  
LENGTH: iii+136 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1019-A-01; 1019-B-01  
SUDOC: Y4.C73/8:107-101  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-28572-5.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-101. Hearing before the Subcom on Health to examine proposals to establish a prescription drug benefit for Medicare beneficiaries.
 
Supplementary material (p. 114-136) includes submitted statements and witnesses' written replies to Subcom questions.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Medicare prescription drug benefit estab

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON HEALTH, ENERGY AND COMMERCE. HOUSE;  MEDICARE; DRUGS; MEDICAL REGULATION; MANAGED HEALTH CARE

02-H361-46 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Apr. 17, 2002 p. 27-62
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   MCCLELLAN, MARK B. (Dr.) (Member, Council of Economic Advisers)
 
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
   Overview of Administration proposals to modernize Medicare, including prescription drug benefit proposal; explanation of Administration proposal to expand Medicare prescription drug benefits through prescription drug card programs; elaboration of Administration proposals to strengthen Medicare assistance to low-income beneficiaries.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Medicare prescription drug benefit estab
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS; POVERTY
 
 
02-H361-46 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Apr. 17, 2002 p. 63-114
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   LAMBREW, JEANNE M. (Associate Professor, George Washington University)
   BRAUN, BEATRICE (Board Member, AARP)
   NEUMAN, PATRICIA (Vice President and Director, Medicare Policy Project, Kaiser Family Foundation)
   HILLERBY, MICHAEL D. (Deputy Chief of Staff, Nevada Governor's Office)
   TYLER, BRIAN (Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, McKesson Corp)
   FULLER, CRAIG (President and CEO, National Association of Chain Drug Stores)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Perspectives on prescription drug coverage program design and implementation; views on Administration prescription drug benefit proposal; importance of establishing Medicare prescription drug benefits, with aspects of prescription drug coverage problem (related graphs, p. 86-91); recommendations regarding proposals to cover prescription drugs under Medicare.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Medicare prescription drug benefit estab
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   KAISER, HENRY J., FAMILY FOUNDATION; AARP; NEVADA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE; MCKESSON CORP.; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHAIN DRUG STORES

LOAD-DATE: February 3, 2003