HEALTH CARE HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON HEALTH CARE 55-945 O PART 1 SEPTEMBER 27, 1979 Printed for the use of the Select Committee on Small Business U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1980 CONTENTS Statement of Senators- Hatch, Hon. Orrin G., a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Robert, Mobile Home Health Care, Inc., Mobile, Ala.. Bailey, Wayne M., president, Columbia Medical Rentals, Inc., Irmo, S.C.... Beard, Charles D., Jr., president, and John G. Beard, executive director, Alabama Home Health Care, Birmingham, Ala Cain, Dena, assistant director, American Pharmaceutical Association Estes, Norman, Estes Health Care Centers, Inc., Birmingham, Ala., accom- panied by Henry May, deputy administrator of the American Health Liversidge, Robert, Jr., legislative chairman, National Association of Home Health Agencies, c/o Visiting Nurses Association of Greater St. Louis, St. Main, James, representing the American Pharmaceutical Association....... Merrill, Jeffrey C., Director, Office of Legislation and Policy, Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Wel- fare, Washington, D.C., accompanied by Curtis Lord, Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Wel- fare, Atlanta, Ga., and John Bedford, from the Atlanta office Testimony of- Damron, William W., director, Gulf Medical Supplies, Biloxi, Miss 633 APPENDIX [PRINTED SEPARATELY IN PART 2] Article, "U.S. Blamed for Part of Health Program Ills," by Howie Kurtz, from 683 Article, "Hospitals, Nursing Homes Have Trouble With Board," by Howie 686 Letter dated May 3, 1979, to Del Ferguson, CPA, from H. D. Hall, executive 688. 833 Letter dated September 25, 1979, to Senator Gaylord Nelson, from Leo A. 836 842 (III) |