Volume III

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE

MAJOR ISSUES

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

CONSIDERATION OF THE MAJOR ISSUES RELATING
TO NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE

FEBRUARY 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, AND 26, 1976

Serial No. 94-91

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COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE

HARLEY O. STAGGERS, West Virginia, Chairman

TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts SAMUEL L. DEVINE, Ohio

CONTENTS

(The same table of contents appears in volumes II and III.]

VOLUME II

Hearings held on-

Page

February 3, 1976 (the desirability of legislative action) -

February 4, 1976 (medicaid)_

February 11, 1976 (what benefits should be covered?-Part I).

543

February 17, 1976 (what benefits should be covered?-Part II-

long-term care) - -

February 23, 1976 (how should providers and institutions be reim-

bursed?)

Adams, Hon. Brock, a Representative in Congress from the State of

Washington..

1157

Altman, Stuart H., Ph. D., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning

and Evaluation/Health, Department of Health, Education, and

Welfare..

3, 37, 1176, 1214

937

1323, 1373

Amidei, Nancy, Washington, D.C..

Ball, Robert, senior scholar, Institute of Medicine, National Academy

of Sciences..

Bawden, James W., D.D.S., professor, Department of Pedodontics,
University of North Carolina, School of Dentistry...
585, 734

Beall, Hon. J. Glenn, Jr., a U.S. Senator from the State of Maryland.. 791

Beigel, Allan, M.D., director, Southern Arizona Mental Health

Center..

585, 671

Berman, Richard A., associate director for ambulatory services,
the New York Hospital, and assistant dean of Cornell University
Medical College-

1081

Butler, Patricia Ă., associate director, National Health Law Program_142, 171
Cohen, Harold A., executive director, Health Services Cost Review
Commission, State of Maryland.

1010, 1017

Conable, Hon. Barber B., a Representative in Congress from the
State of New York...

781

3, 37

Cooper, Theodore, M.D., Secretary for Health, Department of Health,

Education, and Welfare..

Cornely, Donald A., M.D., Department of Maternal and Child Health,
School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

Cruikshank, Nelson H., president, National Council of Senior

Citizens.

937, 946

309, 316

Davis, Karen, Ph. D., senior fellow, Brookings Institution---
DeCencio, Dominic, Ph. D., executive director, Cumberland Regional
Health Plan__.

142, 148

142, 185

Ellwood, Paul M., Jr., M.D., president, Interstudy--

Durkin, Robert, administrator, Division of Health Policy and
Planning, State of Wisconsin.

29

467, 496

Falk, Isidore S., professor of public health, Yale University School of

Medicine, and member, Executive Committee, Health Security

Action Council, and chairman, Technical Subcommittee, Com-

mittee for National Health Insurance.

1323, 1386

870

Fifer, William R., M.D., professor of medicine, University of Min-

nesota...