The Energy and Commerce Committee will hold its second day of legislative hearings on the health reform discussion draft on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.  The Committee has worked with the Ways and Means and Education and Labor Committees to develop a proposal that reflects President Obama's health reform principles.

Witness List

Panel One:  Single-Payer Health Care

• Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., Director, Health Research Group at Public Citizen
• Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Co-Founder, Physicians for a National Health Program
• John C. Goodman, Ph.D., President & CEO, National Center for Policy Analysis

Panel Two:  State, Local and Tribal Views

• The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• The Honorable Joseph Vitale, Chairman, Committee on Health, Human Services, and Senior Citizens, New Jersey State Senate
• W. Ron Allen, Chairman, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
• The Honorable Jay Webber, State Assembly, State of New Jersey
• Raymond C. Scheppach, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Governors Association
• Robert S. Freeman, Deputy Executive Director, CenCal Health, California Association of Health Insuring Organizations
• Ron Pollack, Executive Director, Families USA

Panel Three:  Drug and Device Manufacturer Views

• Thomas Miller, CEO, Workflow and Solutions Division, Siemens Medical Solutions, USA
• Kathleen Buto, Vice President for Health Policy, Johnson & Johnson
• William Vaughan, Senior Health Policy Analyst, Consumers Union
• Scott Gottlieb, M.D., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
• Carol A. Kelly, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy, National Association of Chain Drug Stores

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