COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES EDWARD M. KENNEDY, CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island Massachusetts, Chairman NANCY LANDON KASSEBAUM, Kansas DAN COATS, Indiana JUDD GREGG, New Hampshire STROM THURMOND, South Carolina DAVE DURENBERGER, Minnesota CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, Connecticut BARBARA A. MIKULSKI, Maryland PAUL D. WELLSTONE, Minnesota TOM HARKIN, Iowa NICK LITTLEFIELD, Staff Director and Chief Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio, Chairman CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, Connecticut ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah NANCY LANDON KASSEBAUM, Kansas MICHELE L. VARNHAGEN, Chief Counsel and Staff Director (II) CONTENTS STATEMENTS Metzenbaum, Hon. Howard M., a U.S. Senator from the State of Ohio, pre- Mikulski, Hon. Barbara A., a U.S. Senator from the State of Maryland, Hatch, Hon. Orrin G., a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah, prepared Puhl, Penny, Chicago, IL; Karin Smith, Nashoteh, WI; Steven Bosworth, Simi Valley, CA; William Rand, M.D., Pompano Beach, FL; and John P. Tooker, M.D., F.A.C.P., chairman-elect, Board of Governors, American Col- Nichols, Sara, staff attorney, Public Citizen's Congress Watch, Washington, DC; Gail Shearer, manager, policy analysis, Consumers Union, Washington, DC; Geraldine Dallek, MPH, Center for Health Care Rights, on behalf of the Coalition for Consumer Protection and Quality, Los Angeles, CA; and David Lyons, vice president, National Association of Insurance Com- missioners, Commissioner of Insurance, State of Iowa, Des Moines, IA Group Health Association of America, prepared statement (with attachment) HMO Physicians' Shared Risk Pools Are Dangerous To Patients' Health, by Ronald Bronow, from HealthSpan, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1993 White Paper On Consumer Due Process Protections, November 30, 1993, from the Coalition for Consumer Protection and Quality in Health White Paper on Minimum Requirements for Consumer Information, from the Coalition for Consumer Protection and Quality in Health Care (III) |