HEARINGS
"An Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit"
Monday, February 27 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
192 Dirksen Senate Office Building
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Hearing Transcript
For a full transcript of the hearing click here.
Click here to see a video recording of the hearing. (Quicktime format)
Opening Statements
Senator Byron L. Dorgan
Chairman, Democratic Policy Committee
Witnesses
Robert Hayes
Medicare Rights Center
Thomas Rice
UCLA School of Public Health
Gerard Anderson
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Tim Westmoreland
Georgetown University
David Olig
Southpointe Pharmacy
Additional Materials
Chart Accompanying the Testimony of Thomas Rice: "Health Insurance Decisions Facing the Elderly"
"Who Will Be Denied Medicare Prescription Drug Subsidies Because of the Asset Test?" Thomas Rice, PhD; and Katherine Desmond, MS, The American Journal of Managed Care, January 2006