NEWS from
Subcommittee on Health
Hearing on VA’s Experience in Implementing Patient Enrollment
Under Public Law 104-262
Thursday, July 15, 1999
334 Cannon House Office
Building
9:30 a.m.
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| Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR) seeks answers from a panel. | Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, M.D., VA's Acting
Secretary for Health, begins his testimony before the Health Subcommittee. |
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| Health Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns
(R-FL), center, opens the hearing, flanked by the Subcommittee's Ranking Democratic Member
Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), left, and Subcommittee Counsel Ralph Ibson. |
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First to testify on VA implementation of PL 104-262 was Stephen Backhus, Director, Veterans' Affairs and Military Health Care Issues for the Health, Education and Human Services Division of the General Accounting Office (center). He was accompanied by Assistant Director Ronald J. Guthrie and Senior Evaluator Lisa R. Gardner. |
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Dr. Garthwaite was joined by several VISN directors across the country, including, from left, Dr. John R. Higgins, M.D., VISN 16; Dr. Robert H. Roswell, M.D. VISN 8; and Dr. William (Ted) Galey, M.D., VISN 20. |