SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California, Chairman CLAUDE PEPPER, Florida MATTHEW J. RINALDO, New Jersey, MARIO BIAGGI, New York Ranking Minority Member IKE ANDREWS, North Carolina JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, Arkansas DEN:BONKER; Workington RALPH REGULA, Ohio THOMAS J. DOWNEY, New York NORMAN D. SHUMWAY, California JAMES J. FLORIO, New Jersey OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine HAROLD E. FORD, Tennessee JAMES M. JEFFORDS, Vermont WILLIAM J. HUGHES, New Jersey THOMAS J. TAUKE, Iowa MARILYN LLOYD, Tennessee JUDD GREGG, New Hampshire STAN LUNDINE, New York GEORGE C. WORTLEY, New York MARY ROSE OAKAR, Ohio HAL DAUB, Nebraska THOMAS A. LUKEN, Ohio LARRY E. CRAIG, Idaho COOPER EVANS, Iowa LYLE WILLIAMS, Ohio CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, Rhode Island MIKE SYNAR, Oklahoma THOMAS J. RIDGE, Pennsylvania BUTLER DERRICK, South Carolina JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona BRUCE F. VENTO, Minnesota MICHAEL BILIRAKIS, Florida BARNEY FRANK, Massachusetts GEORGE W. GEKAS, Pennsylvania TOM LANTOS, California MARK D. SILJANDER, Michigan RON WYDEN, Oregon CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey JORGE J. LAMBRINOS, Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES MARIO BIAGGI, New York, Chairman WILLIAM J. HUGHES, New Jersey OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine, DONALD JOSEPH ALBOSTA, Michigan Ranking Minority Member TOM LANTOS, California MATTHEW J. RINALDO, New Jersey BEN ERDREICH, Alabama CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, Rhode Island BUDDY MACKAY, Florida MICHAEL BILIRAKIS, Florida BILL RICHARDSON, New Mexico CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey ROBERT B. BLANCATO, Staff Director :) (II) CONTENTS MEMBERS' OPENING STATEMENTS Page CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Carolyne K. Davis, Ph. D., Administrator, Health Care Financing Administra- tion, Department of Health and Human Services ...... Panel one-Medicare Reform from the Perspective of Beneficiaries: Herbert Miller, chairman, New Jersey Coordinating Council of Organized Older Citizens, Northvale, N.J.. David Keiserman, member, New Jersey Council of Senior Citizens Execu- Donald Bond, president, Princeton chapter, American Association of Re- tired Persons, Princeton, N.J. Esther Abrams, member, National Executive Board, Older Women's Panel two-Cost Containment and Benefit Restructuring: Anne Somers, professor, Department of Environmental and Community Medicine and Family Medicine, Rutgers Medical School... Faith Goldschmidt, health economics services, New Jersey Department of Winifred Livengood, executive director, Home Health Agency Assembly 153 Additional material received for the record: Frances Gerty, president, and Eileen Vroom, former president, Residents Association, Richmond Towers, Plainfield, N.J., letter.. Frank Sterbinsky, president, Senior Citizens of Manville, Manville N.J., Peter M. Shields, director, Union County Division on Aging, Department of Human Resources, County of Union, N.J., prepared statement............. American Association of Retired Persons on "The Administration's Fiscal Year 1984 Budget Proposals in Health Care,” prepared statement.... Milton Wilkotz, State chairman, Health Security Action Council, Toms River, N.J., newsletter and attachments Howard D. Slobodien, M.D., president, Medical Society of New Jersey, James E. Cunningham, president, New Jersey Association of Health Care Facilities, prepared statement. Lucille A. Joel, Ed. D., F.A.A.N., president, New Jersey State Nurses Association, and professor and director of Clinical Affairs, Rutgers University, College of Nursing, prepared statement. Doris Fullterton, president, Practice Insight, Inc., and Here to Help, Inc., Jack Rafferty, mayor, Hamilton, N.J., prepared statement New Jersey Gerontological Society, prepared statement Princeton Senior Resource Center, prepared statement American Medical Association, prepared statement.. New Jersey Federation of Senior Citizens, Edith Edelson, chairperson, |