TITLE: Medicare Reform

CIS-NO: 2001-H781-70  
SOURCE: Committee on Ways and Means. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Feb. 28, 2001  
LENGTH: iii+85 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-1  
ITEM-NO: 1028-A; 1028-B  
SUDOC: Y4.W36:107-4  
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2001-17270  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-27252-6.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-4. Hearing before the Subcom on Health to examine proposals to reform medicare to control program costs and improve health care services delivery (Subcom advisories, p. 2-4).
 
Also considers S. 357 and S. 358, the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2001, both to establish an outpatient prescription drug benefit for medicare beneficiaries.
 
Supplementary material (p. 73-85) includes submitted statements.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Medicare revision

BILLS: 107 S. 357; 107 S. 358

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON HEALTH, WAYS AND MEANS. HOUSE;  MEDICARE; MEDICAL REGULATION; HEALTH FACILITIES AND SERVICES; MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG AND MODERNIZATION ACT; DRUGS; MANAGED HEALTH CARE

01-H781-70 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Feb. 28, 2001 p. 11-36
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   BREAUX, JOHN (Sen, D-La)
 
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
   Merits of sponsored S. 357 and S. 358; elaboration on Medicare reform proposals.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Medicare revision
 
 
01-H781-70 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Feb. 28, 2001 p. 37-73
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   ALTMAN, STUART H. (Professor, National Health Policy, Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University)
   FEDER, JUDITH (Dean, Policy Studies, Georgetown University)
   FRANCIS, WALTON J. (author)
   LEMIEUX, JEFFREY (Senior Economist, Progressive Policy Institute)
 
STATEMENTS:
   Views on and recommendations regarding medicare reform; importance of Federal Employee Health Benefits Program as model for medicare reform; perspectives on solutions to problems affecting medicare program.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Medicare revision
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   FEDERAL EMPLOYEES; HEALTH INSURANCE

LOAD-DATE: November 22, 2002