Advocating for Patients: Information for Consumers : Hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session on Examining Issues Related to Health Information for Consumers, and Proposed Legislation that Would Provide Assistance to the States that Wish to Establish, Or Strengthen Their Existing Health Care Consumer Assistance, Or Ombudsman Programs, March 28, 2001, Volume 4

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Page 37 - Its 294 members provide health, long-term care, dental, disability, and supplemental coverage to more than 123 million Americans.
Page 14 - Hospital, a 475-bed hospital in Madison. Mr. Queram is a member of the Board of the National Business Coalition on Health and served as board chair for the past two years. He was a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry. Mr. Queram served as a member of the Planning Committee for the National Quality Forum and continues as convenor of the Purchaser Council of the Forum. He is a member of the Wisconsin Board on Health Information...
Page 24 - I would like to ask unanimous consent that my full statement be entered into the record. [The prepared statement of Mr. Lowry follows:] (1) -i'.
Page 39 - From 1997 through 1998, she was on President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry.
Page 25 - ... the nursing shortage and the challenges it presents, but I hope it will also be an opportunity to talk about solutions in the short and long term. We must look at what nurses, hospitals and other facilities, nursing schools, states, Congress and the federal government can do to combat this crisis. I know that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle care deeply about this issue. I look forward to today's testimony and working on this important issue with the Chairman and my other colleagues....
Page 2 - I would like to ask that my statement be put in the record, and I will speak extemporaneously.
Page 38 - During the 2000 presidential campaign, a survey commissioned by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press found that...
Page 35 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it is an honor to be here today to speak with you about the proposed "Health Information for Consumers Act" to establish consumer assistance programs for health care consumers.
Page 37 - I appreciate the opportunity to share the Washington Business Group on Health's perspective on this issue, and as always, I welcome any questions from the committee.
Page 7 - I am very pleased to be here today to tell you about the relationships between the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation.