To receive testimony on the Defense Health Program in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2000 and the Future Years Defense Program.

Witnesses:

Panel I:

Mr. David J. McIntyre, Jr.
President and CEO, TriWest Healthcare Alliance

Mr. Robert E. Shields
President and CEO, Humana Military Healthcare Services Inc.

Panel II:

Dr. Sue Bailey
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs

Dr. H. James T. Sears
Executive Director, TRICARE

Major General John S. Parker, USA (Statement of Lieutentant General Ronald Blanck, Army Surgeon General)
Commanding General
Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick

Vice Admiral Richard A. Nelson, USN
Surgeon General of the Navy

Lieutenant General Charles H. Roadman, II, USAF
Surgeon General of the Air Force

Panel III:

Ms. Virginia Torsch
Co-chair, Healthcare Committee
The Military Coalition

Mr. Charles C. Partridge
Chairman of Medical Committee
National Military and Veterans Alliance

Ms. Sydney T. Hickey
The Military Coalition

STATEMENTS FOR THE RECORD:

Chief Master Sergeant Joshua W. Krebs, USAF (Ret.)
Manager, Legislative Affairs

Mr. Stephen P. Backhus, Director
Veterans' Affairs and Military Health Care Issues
Health, Education, and Human Services Division