TITLE: Administration's Principles To Strengthen and Modernize Medicare

CIS-NO: 2001-H781-93  
SOURCE: Committee on Ways and Means. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: July 19, 2001  
LENGTH: iii+68 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-1  
ITEM-NO: 1028-A; 1028-B  
SUDOC: Y4.W36:107-39  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-27417-1.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-39. Hearing to review Administration initiatives to reform the medicare program, including proposal to establish a prescription drug benefit for medicare beneficiaries (Subcom advisory, p. 2-3).
 
Supplementary material (p. 60-68) includes submitted statements.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Medicare revision, Admin proposals review

DESCRIPTORS:  
    MEDICARE; HEALTH FACILITIES AND SERVICES; DRUGS; MEDICAL REGULATION

01-H781-93 TESTIMONY NO: 1     July 19, 2001 p. 7-60
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   THOMPSON, TOMMY G. (Secretary, HHS)
 
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
   Explanation of Administration proposals to reform the medicare system; specifics on proposal to provide prescription drug coverage to medicare beneficiaries.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Medicare revision, Admin proposals review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

LOAD-DATE: November 22, 2002