Hearing

Full Committee Hearings on The Lack of Hospital Emergency Surge Capacity: Will the Administration's Medicaid Regulations Make It Worse?

May 5, 2008

Opening Statement of Rep. Christopher Shays (Day 1)

Ranking Member Davis' Opening Statement (Day 2)

Day 1

Bruce Hoffman, Ph.D., Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University

Lisa Kaplowitz, M.D., Deputy Commissioner for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Virginia Department of Health

Roger Lewis, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Jay Wayne Meredith, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of General Surgery, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Colleen Conway Welsh, Ph.D., Dean, Vanderbilt School of Nursing

Day 2

The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

The Honorable Michael Chertoff, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security