VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION HEALTH
CARE AMENDMENTS OF 1984
COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS
UNITED STATES SENATE
NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS
S. 2210, S. 2269, Amendment No. 2850 to S. 2269,
S. 2278, S. 2514 and Related Bills
Printed for the use of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1985
COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS
ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming, Chairman
STROM THURMOND, South Carolina ROBERT T. STAFFORD, Vermont FRANK H. MURKOWSKI, Alaska ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania JEREMIAH DENTON, Alabama
RUDY BOSCHWITZ, Minnesota
ALAN CRANSTON, California
JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia
SPARK M. MATSUNAGA, Hawaii
DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona
GEORGE J. MITCHELL, Maine
ANTHONY J. PRINCIPI, Chief Counsel/Staff Director JONATHAN R. STEINBERG, Minority Chief Counsel/Staff Director
Opening statement of Hon. Alan K. Simpson, chairman of the Senate Com-
mittee on Veterans' Affairs......
Bill S. 2210, as referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs:
Text of
Agency report of the Veterans' Administration (No. 75, May 7, 1984)..
Bill S. 2269, as referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs:
Text of
Introductory statement of the author, Hon. Alan Cranston, excerpts from
the Congressional Record, vol. 130, No. 12, pp. S1084-S1089–Senate,
February 7, 1984.
Amendment No. 2850, excerpts from the Congressional Record, vol. 130,
No. 37, pp. S3248-S3252-Senate, March 27, 1984.
Bill S. 2278, as referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs:
Text of
Introductory statement of the author, Hon. Rudy Boschwitz, excerpts
from the Congressional Record, vol. 130, No. 13, pp. S1185-S1186-
Senate, February 8, 1984...
Agency report of the Veterans' Administration (No. 79, May 21, 1984).....
Bill S. 2514, as referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs:
Text of
Introductory statement of the author, Hon. Alan K. Simpson, excerpts
from the Congressional Record, vol. 130, No. 40, pp. $3533-S3536–
Senate, March 30, 1984..
Agency report of the Veterans' Administration (No. 85, July 16, 1984)........
Testimony of:
A panel consisting of: Donald L. Custis, M.D., Chief Medical Director,
Veterans' Administration, accompanied by D. Earl Brown, Jr., M.D.,
Associate Deputy Chief Medical Director; A. Audley Hendricks, Assist-
ant General Counsel; and Marjorie R. Quandt, Assistant Chief Medical
Director for Administration
A panel consisting of: Ewald W. Busse, M.D., dean emeritus, Duke Uni-
versity Medical Center, Durham, NC, and Chairman of the Geriatrics
and Gerontology Advisory Committee to the Veterans' Administration;
and Terrie Wetle, Ph.D., assistant professor, Division of Health Policy
Research and Education, Harvard University Medical School, Cam-
bridge, MA.
A panel consisting of: Leonard Saxe, Ph.D., psychologist, Boston Universi-
ty, accompanied by Denise Dougherty, Office of Technology Assess-
ment; Sandra K. Hill, R.N., C.A.Č., M.B.A., director, Suburban Hospi-
tals' Alcoholism Treatment Services, Bethesda, MD, and president,
board of trustees, Baltimore Alcoholism Treatment Center, Baltimore,
MD; and Leo Ruffing, member of the board of directors, Association of
Halfway House Alcoholism Programs of North America, Inc., St. Paul,
MN, accompanied by Donald Anderson, director, Serenity House Alco-
holism Recovery Program, Newport News, VA........
John R. Smith, M.A., Clinical Program Director appointee, Center for
Trauma Recovery, Brecksville Division, VA Medical Center, Cleveland,
OH.
A panel consisting of: Martin H. Cohen, M.D., Chief, Oncology Section,
Veterans' Administration Medical Center, Washington, DC; and Shar-
ron Dreyer, B.S.N., assistant administrator, Patient Care Services, Hos-
pice of Northern Virginia, Inc., Arlington, VA.
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