COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey, Chairman JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia JACOB K. JAVITS, New York ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah JOHN H. CHAFEE, Rhode Island S. I. HAYAKAWA, California STEPHEN J. PARADISE, General Counsel and Staff Director Text of: S. 2410_. CONTENTS Page CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1978 Garrahy, Hon, J. Joseph, Governor of the State of Rhode Island, chairman, National Governors' Association Subcommittee on Health Policy‒‒‒‒‒ Champion, Hale, Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, ac- companied by Julius Richmond, Assistant Secretary for Health; Dr. Karen Davis. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (Health), and Henry Foley, Administrator of Health Resources Admin- Herschler, Hon. Edward, Governor of the State of Wyoming.. Semmel, Herbert, Director, Consumer Coalition for Health, Washington, D.C., Steve Suitts, executive director, Southern Regional Council, At- lanta, Ga., and Willie Mitchell, national health law program, Newman, Checkoway, Barry, assistant professor of urban and regional planning, Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Champaign County Health Fenerty, Anne, Consumer Coalition for Health, Boulder, Colo. Pitts, Hon. Terrance, supervisor, Milwaukee County, Wis., on behalf of the National Association of Counties, accompanied by Mike Gemmell, NACO associate director for health and education---- McMahon, John Alexander, American Hospital Association; accompanied by Leo J. Gehrig, M.D., senior vice president; and Paul W. Earle, vice president; Frank J. Jirka, M.D., vice chairman, American Medical Asso- ciation Board of Trustees; accompanied by Archie Johnson, M.D., mem- ber of AMA's ad hoc committee on planning and practicing physician from Raleigh, N.C.; and Harry N. Peterson, director, AMA legislative department: Michael Bromberg, director, Federation of American Hos- Mott, Anthony, executive director, Finger Lakes HSA, Rochester, N.Y.; James Suter, executive director, West Virginia HSA, Inc., Charleston, W. Va.; and Dorothy Hoskin, chairman of the governing body, Western Colorado HSA, Grand Junction, Colo., a panel. Martin, Richard, manager, Health Services Industry Relations, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio; John Brown, director of employee benefits, Genesco, Inc., Nashville, Tenn., and Willis Goldbeck, director, Glasser, Melvin A., director, social security department, United Auto Page Hollander, Neil, vice president of health care services, Blue Cross Associa- STATEMENTS American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Bert Seidman, director, department of social security, prepared statement with appendix.. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Robert E. McGarrah, Jr., public policy counsel, public policy analysis department. prepared amendment.. 967 981 1023 886 960 American Health Planning Association, Anthony Mott, executive director, prepared statement___ 748 American Hospital Association, prepared statement_ 664 612 Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Georgia legal services program, New Orleans Legal Assistance Corp., and the National Health Law Program, Inc., legal services clients, prepared statements_. 412 Blue Cross Association, Neil Hollander, vice preident of health care services, prepared statement.... Champion, Hale, Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, accompanied by Julius Richmond, Assistant Secretary for Health; Dr. Karen Davis, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (Health), and Henry Foley, Administrator of Health Resources Administration Prepared statement Checkoway, Barry, assistant professor of urban and regional planning, University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign; Champaign County Health Care Consumers Prepared statement Clark, Hon. Dick, a U.S. Senator from the State of Iowa 986 78 97 388 391 862 Prepared statement (with proposed amendments) 866 Consumer Coalition for Health, Herbert Semmel, director, prepared statement 152 Czerwinski, Joe, State representative from Wisconsin, prepared statement Federation of American Hospitals, Michael D. Bromberg. Esq., executive director, prepared statement__ 566 621 Fenerty, Anne, Consumer Coalition for Health, Boulder, Colo 395 397 Garrahy, Hon. J. Joseph, Governor of the State of Rhode Island, chairman, Glasser eMlvin A., director, social security department, United Auto 967 Prepared statement 972 Grimm, Richard, president, Technicare Corp.; Harold Buzzell, president, 1023 1037 Health Industry Manufacturers Association, Harold Buzzell, president prepared statement_____. 1037 Health Insurance Association of America. Henry A. Diprete, second vice president, group operations, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., Prepared statement_-_ 1012 Herschler, Hon. Edward, Governor of the State of Wyoming.... 138 Hollander, Neil, vice president of health care services, Blue Cross Association and Henry A. Diprete, second vice president, group operations, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., a panel.. Prepared statement Jirka, Frank Jr., M.D., vice-chairman, board of trustees, American Medical Johnson, Archie, M.D., American Medical Association, prepared statement__ Prepared statement__. Martin, Richard, manager, Health Services Industry Relations, Goodyear Mott, Anthony, executive director, Finger Lakes HSA, Rochester, N.Y.; Prepared statement McMahon, John Alexander, president, American Hospital Association; accompanied by Leo J. Gehrig, M.D., senior vice president; and Paul W. Earle, vice president; Frank J. Jirka, M.D., vice chairman, American Medical Association Board of Trustees; accompanied by Archie Johnson, M.D., member of AMA's Ad Hoc Committee on Planning and practicing physician from Raleigh, N.C.; and Harry N. Peterson, director, AMA legislative department; Michael Bromberg, director, Federation of American Hospitals, a panel.. Page 981 986 593 601 948 951 853 736 747 586 Prepared statement.. 644 McGarrah, Robert E., Jr., public policy counsel, public policy analysis department, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.- 957 Prepared statement 980 Pitts, Hon. Terrance, Supervisor, Milwaukee County, Wis., on behalf of the National Asociation of Counties, accompanied by Mike Gemmell, NACO associate director for health and education__ 534 Seidman, Bert, director, department of social security, AFL-CIO, accompanied by Richard Shoemaker assistant director_. 881 Prepared statement 886 Semmel, Herbert, director, Consumer Coalition for Health, Washington, 142 Prepared statement 152 Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C., 938 190 United Auto Workers, Melvin A. Glaser, director, social security department, prepared statement__. 972 Wisniewski, Stanley, research director, Service Employees International 934 Prepared statement_____ 938 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Articles, publications, etc.: Actions Approved by the National Steering Committee on Voluntary 726 Amendment Proposals to the National Health Planning and Resources 670 708 1057 Articles, publications, etc. :-Continued Computed Tomography and the Quality of Radiation Therapy, by J. Consumer Guide to Local Health Care Planning, from the Association Cost of Planning Under Public Law 93-641, Current Experience and HSA Governing Body Composition Analysis of Region II, by Herbert Minimally Funded and Rural Health Systems Agencies statement of Placebo or Cure? State and Local Health Planning Agencies in the 1059 340 767 317 1061 809 198 186 539 Proposals for Amendments to Public Law 93-641, from the Consumer 179 Study of Single HSA States and Section 1536 States, executive summary 790 Communications to: 53 374 583 Kennedy, Hon. Edward M., chairman, Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, from Governor Richard D. Lamm, chairman, Task Force on Health Planning, National Governors Association (with enclosure), Feb. 8, 1978_ Kennedy, Hon. Edward M., chairman, Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, from Herbert Semmel, president, Consumer Coalition for Health, Feb. 23, 1978 (with enclosure) .......... Kennedy, Hon. Edward M., chairman, Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, from Michael K., Gemmell, associate director, National Association of Counties, Feb. 24, 1978 (with attachments) __ Kennedy, Hon. Edward M., Chairman, Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, from James H. Sammons, M.D., executive vice president, American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill., Mar. 10, 1978 Shapiro, Stuart, professional staff member. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, Committee on Human Resources, from Walter L. Robb, vice president and general manager, medical systems division, General Electric Co., Feb. 14, 1978 (with enclosures) ------ 1047 Selected tables: 611 Public officials on governing bodies.-- 86 Results of the HSA project review process, August 1974 to February 1977 -- 854 Status of certificate of need and section 1122 programs in the States 136 |