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Description:Excerpt from Health Care Reform: Hearings Before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First and Second Sessions, on Field Hearings on Health Care Reform, December 9, 1993, January 20 and 21, 1994 The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9 a.m. in the Hershel Friday Courtroom, University of Little Rock Law School, Little Rock, AR, Hon. Dale Bumpers (chairman of the Committee), presiding. Opening Statement Of Hon. Dale Bumpers, A U.S. Senator From The State Of Arkansas The Chairman. Good morning. I am going to keep this hearing on time today. We have enough witnesses to take us well into the afternoon, and maybe even evening. So it is important to other witnesses who will be coming to testify later that we be ready for them when they get here. First I want to thank all the witnesses. I apologize for my voice, but it is much better than it was. I thought for awhile I was going to have to cancel this hearing. I want to thank all our witnesses for the time they spent on their statements, and more importantly for their concerns about health care and health care reform. The primary purpose of this hearing is to hear the concerns of small business owners about the impact the various health care plans will have on them and their ability to continue in business. But we would be remiss if the Committee did not also hear from providers, consumers, the insurance industry and others, simply because we cannot evaluate the small business impact in a vacuum. We need to know more about how the plan is going to affect ordinary citizens, the States, those presently self-insuring their employees, the public health clinics and myriad other questions. Is the present definition of small business, 75 employees, a proper level or should it be higher? Should every citizen have a right to a doctor of his choice? The health care costs have skyrocketed to the point that we now know that in the past 25 years it has consistently doubled and quadrupled the inflation rate. A few statistics to illustrate a point. In 1980 health care spending represented nine percent of our gross domestic product. By 1992 that number had increased to 14 percent and it is expected to rise to 18 percent by the year 2000, almost one out of every five dollars we spend in this country by the year 2000, if we do nothing, will be for health care. No other country in the world spends more than 10 percent of their gross domestic product for health care. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Health Care Reform: Hearings Before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First and Second Sessions, on ... January 20 and 21, 1994 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Health Care Reform: Hearings Before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First and Second Sessions, on ... January 20 and 21, 1994 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Health Care Reform: Hearings Before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First and Second Sessions, on Field Hearings on Health Care Reform, December 9, 1993, January 20 and 21, 1994 The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9 a.m. in the Hershel Friday Courtroom, University of Little Rock Law School, Little Rock, AR, Hon. Dale Bumpers (chairman of the Committee), presiding. Opening Statement Of Hon. Dale Bumpers, A U.S. Senator From The State Of Arkansas The Chairman. Good morning. I am going to keep this hearing on time today. We have enough witnesses to take us well into the afternoon, and maybe even evening. So it is important to other witnesses who will be coming to testify later that we be ready for them when they get here. First I want to thank all the witnesses. I apologize for my voice, but it is much better than it was. I thought for awhile I was going to have to cancel this hearing. I want to thank all our witnesses for the time they spent on their statements, and more importantly for their concerns about health care and health care reform. The primary purpose of this hearing is to hear the concerns of small business owners about the impact the various health care plans will have on them and their ability to continue in business. But we would be remiss if the Committee did not also hear from providers, consumers, the insurance industry and others, simply because we cannot evaluate the small business impact in a vacuum. We need to know more about how the plan is going to affect ordinary citizens, the States, those presently self-insuring their employees, the public health clinics and myriad other questions. Is the present definition of small business, 75 employees, a proper level or should it be higher? Should every citizen have a right to a doctor of his choice? The health care costs have skyrocketed to the point that we now know that in the past 25 years it has consistently doubled and quadrupled the inflation rate. A few statistics to illustrate a point. In 1980 health care spending represented nine percent of our gross domestic product. By 1992 that number had increased to 14 percent and it is expected to rise to 18 percent by the year 2000, almost one out of every five dollars we spend in this country by the year 2000, if we do nothing, will be for health care. No other country in the world spends more than 10 percent of their gross domestic product for health care. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Health Care Reform: Hearings Before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First and Second Sessions, on ... January 20 and 21, 1994 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Health Care Reform: Hearings Before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First and Second Sessions, on ... January 20 and 21, 1994 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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