VULNERABLE AMERICANS United States. Congress. HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIRST CONGRESS SECOND SESSION MARCH 5, 1990 Comm. Pub. No. 101-785 Printed for the use of the Select Committee on Aging 36-336 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1990 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California, Chairman THOMAS J. DOWNEY, New York BUTLER DERRICK, South Carolina GEO. W. CROCKETT, JR., Michigan DENNIS M. HERTEL, Michigan ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia THOMAS J. MANTON, New York JAMES MCCLURE CLARKE, North Carolina JIM JONTZ, Indiana JERRY F. COSTELLO, Illinois HARLEY O. STAGGERS, JR., West Virginia FRANK PALLONE, JR., New Jersey JOLENE UNSOELD, Washington PETER A. DEFAZIO, Oregon JOHN LEWIS, Georgia MATTHEW J. RINALDO, New Jersey, Ranking Minority Member JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, Arkansas RALPH REGULA, Ohio NORMAN D. SHUMWAY, California OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, Rhode Island HELEN DELICH BENTLEY, Maryland HARRIS W. FAWELL, Illinois JAN MEYERS, Kansas BEN BLAZ, Guam PAUL B. HENRY, Michigan BILL SCHUETTE, Michigan FLOYD SPENCE, South Carolina WILLIAM F. CLINGER, JR., Pennsylvania CONSTANCE A. MORELLA, Maryland PATRICIA F. SAIKI, Hawaii JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee CRAIG T. JAMES, Florida RICHARD A. VELOZ, M.P.H., J.D., Staff Director PAUL SCHLEGEL, Minority Staff Director (II) 90-603046 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services Additional material received for the record: Appendix I. "Emptying the Elderly's Pocketbook-Growing Impact of Appendix II. Recommendations to the Congress by the Pepper Commission (U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care), submitted for the record by Chairman Edward R. Roybal...... Appendix III. Written answers submitted for the record by Louis W. Sulli- van, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services in response to writ- ten questions submitted by Chairman Edward R. Roybal and Ralph ............ |