Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2002: Hearings Before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, Volume 1

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Page 223 - Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee. I am honored to appear before you today to discuss the President's FY 2003 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Page 223 - National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the principal biomedical research agency of the Federal Government.
Page 275 - Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It is a great pleasure to appear before this committee...
Page 71 - It is also important that to understand that the people who will be reaching age 65 over the next decade as well as the baby-boomers have had very different experiences relative to today's seniors. Most of them have had health plans involving some form of managed care, many of them have had at least some experience choosing among health plans, most have had more education that their parents and many will have more income and assets.
Page 69 - Committee, thank you for inviting me to appear before you. My name is Gail Wilensky. I am the John M.
Page 260 - States and school districts across the country that have made remarkable progress in turning around failing schools, raising student achievement, and closing the achievement gap. We need to bring to Federal education programs many of the strategies that have worked so well at the State and local levels: increased accountability for student performance, a focus on researchbased practices, reduced bureaucracy and greater flexibility, and better information to empower parents. No Child Left Behind...
Page 260 - To provide the resources needed to implement ihis blueprint, the President's budget for fiscal year 2002 includes $44.5 billion for the Department of Education, an 1 1 .5 percent increase in budget authority and an increase of $2.5 billion or 5.9 percent over the 2001 program level. This budget also reflects the President's commitment to a balanced fiscal framework that includes more reasonable and sustainable growth in discretionary spending, protection of Social Security, retiring a significant...
Page 98 - This is quite simply a financing issue and it would require new revenues, likely from a combination of beneficiary and taxpayer dollars. A voluntary approach to provide such benefits through private insurance, such as we have at present, is seriously flawed. Prescription drug benefits generate risk selection problems; already the costs charged by many private supplemental plans for prescription drugs equal or outweigh their total possible benefits because such coverage attracts a sicker than average...
Page 70 - The estimated cost of the prescription drug component of the catastrophic bill passed in 1988 and repealed in 1989 increased by a factor of two and one-half between the time it was initially proposed and the time it was repealed.
Page 260 - ... alternative is to continue to rob millions of poor and disadvantaged young Americans of their futures by failing to provide them an effective education. The important thing about testing, of course¿ is what we do with the results. We would start by helping teachers learn to use data effectively. Secondly, we would require schools to report assessment results for all students to parents and the public. School districts would use these results to make sure that all schools and students are making...

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