Member Statements:
Max Baucus, MT
Charles Grassley, IA

Witness Statements:

Allan M. Korn, M.D., Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Office of Clinical Affairs, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Washington, DC

Glenn M. Hackbarth, J.D., Chairman, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Washington, DC

Peter V. Lee, J.D., Executive Director, National Health Policy, Pacific Business Group on Health, San Francisco, CA

Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institute, Washington, DC

Lewis Morris, J.D., Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, Washington, DC

Mary D. Naylor, Ph.D., FAAN, RN, Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia,  PA

Debra Ness, President, National Partnership for Women and Families, Washington, DC
 
Frank G. Opelka, M.D., FACS, Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs, Professor of Surgery, Office of the Chancellor, Louisiana State University, Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA  

Glenn Steele Jr., M.D., PhD, President, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 

John Tooker, M.D., MBA, FACP, Executive Vice President/Chief Executive Officer, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA 

Richard J. Umbdenstock, FACHE, President and CEO, American Hospital Association, Washington, DC

Ron Williams, Chairman and CEO, Aetna Inc., Hartford, CT

Paul J. Diaz, J.D., President and CEO, Kindred Healthcare Inc., Louisville, KY