SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H.R. 6575 HOSPITAL COST CONTAINMENT ACT OF 1977 MAY 11, 12, AND 13, 1977 PART 1 OF 2 MAY 11 AND 12, 1977 Serial 95-20 Printed for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means and the 91-858 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1977 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS AL ULLMAN, Oregon, Chairman JAMES A. BURKE, Massachusetts SAM M. GIBBONS, Florida JOE D. WAGGONNER, JR., Louisiana OTIS G. PIKE, New York J. J. PICKLE, Texas CHARLES B. RANGEL, New York WILLIAM R. COTTER, Connecticut FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK, California ANDY JACOBS, JR., Indiana MARTHA KEYS, Kansas JOSEPH L. FISHER, Virginia HAROLD FORD, Tennessee KEN HOLLAND, South Carolina WILLIAM M. BRODHEAD, Michigan RICHARD A. GEPHARDT, Missouri BARBER B. CONABLE, JR., New York GUY VANDER JAGT, Michigan KF2? JOHN M. MARTIN, Jr., Chief Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, Illinois, Chairman JAMES C. CORMAN, California OMAR BURLESON, Texas WILLIAM R. COTTER, Connecticut MARTHA KEYS, Kansas HAROLD FORD, Tennessee WILLIAM M. BRODHEAD, Michigan JOHN J. DUNCAN, Tennessee (II) III COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE HARLEY O. STAGGERS, West Virginia, Chairman JOHN E. MOSS, California JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan PAUL G. ROGERS, Florida LIONEL VAN DEERLIN, California DAVID E. SATTERFIELD III, Virginia RICHARDSON PREYER, North Carolina JAMES J. FLORIO, New Jersey ANTHONY TOBY MOFFETT, Connecticut JIM SANTINI, Nevada ANDREW MAGUIRE, New Jersey MARTIN A. RUSSO, Illinois EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts THOMAS A. LUKEN, Ohio DOUG WALGREN, Pennsylvania BOB GAMMAGE, Texas ALBERT GORE, JR., Tennessee BARBARA A. MIKULSKI, Maryland SAMUEL L. DEVINE, Ohio JAMES T. BROYHILL, North Carolina |