UNITED STATES SENATE

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

Hearing on Key Issues in Medicare Reform: Premiums, Benefits, Medicare Subsidies for Graduate Medical Education, Disproportionate Share Hospitals,

and Rural Health Care Infrastructure

Wednesday, May 12, 1999 at 10:00 a.m.

in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

WITNESS LIST

I. Harry P. Cain II, Ph.D. Executive Vice President, Blue Cross & Blue Shield Association; Chicago, IL

P. Anthony Hammond, A.S.A. Senior Actuary, Institute for Health Policy Solutions; Washington, D.C.

Christine C. Ferguson, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Human Services; Providence, RI

Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D. President, Center for Studying Health System Change; Washington, D.C.

II. Murray N. Ross, Ph.D., Executive Director, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; Washington, D.C.

Keith Mueller, Ph.D., Director, Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research, University of Nebraska; Omaha, NE

John W. Rowe, M.D.,President and Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai-New York University Medical Center and Health System

David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., Executive Director, The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Academic Health Centers and Director, Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital; Boston, MA