Roundtable Discussion on the Economics of Health Care, Vol. 2

Download or read book Roundtable Discussion on the Economics of Health Care, Vol. 2 written by United States Congress Join Committee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Roundtable Discussion on the Economics of Health Care, Vol. 2: Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee Congress of the United States; One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:00 a.m., in room 2200, Rayburn House Office Building, the Honorable Lee H. Hamilton (Member of the Committee) presiding. Present: Representative Hamilton and Senator Bennett. Also present: Patricia Ruggles, George Foy, Steve Baldwin, Morgan Reynolds, Michelle Davis, Ken Nelson and Caleb Marshall, professional staff members. Opening Statement of Representative Hamilton, Member Representative Hamilton. The Joint Economic Committee will come to order. Today is another in a series of roundtable conversations that the Joint Economic Committee is holding with prominent economists to discuss economic policy. Today's topic, the economics of health care, is certainly one of the most important economic policy issues of the 1990s. We are pleased to have as our guest today Dr. Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Over the years, Dr. Reinhardt has made important contributions on the economics of health care. Dr. Reinhardt wrote Physician Productivity and the Demand for Manpower in 1975, and he undertook a study of West Germany's health-care system for the Pepper Commission in 1990. He has published numerous articles on health care in leading journals, and has also served on the U.S. Physician Payment Review Commission since it was established by the Congress in 1986. Dr. Reinhardt, we are very pleased to have you. We look forward to a good discussion with you. I understand you were very cooperative last night. We kept changing the schedule on you because of the schedule here. This has been a fairly hectic week for us in the Congress. I am reasonably sure I won't fall asleep in this meeting, but I am working on very few hours of sleep for the entire week. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.